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Kathleen Fent Read This Story
Kathleen, I wanted to do this in this most potentially embarassing way
possible, and I figured doing it here and now, in front of a
quarter of a million strangers
was as good a way as any. I love you more then I can describe within
the limits of this tiny little story. We've been together for many years
now, and I've known for most of that time that I wanted to spend my
life with you. Enough rambling. Will you marry me? Update
15 minutes 30 seconds later: Subj: "Yes", message body: "Dork. You made me cry. :)"
Hazah! I'm getting married!
:)
Congratulations, if you are.
There should be a moratorium on the use of the apostrophe.
Max V.
NeXTMail/MIME Mail welcome
And radio contest, but never on a weblog!
AFAIK, this is somewhat original.
I'm not afraid of falling, it's the sudden stop at the end that frightens me.
This is what I call A Geeky way to ask someone in mariage...
I like it !
Good luck to both of you.
"Tui Nati vulnerati."
Go for it... he's rich.
All the best to both of you!
b&
All but God can prove this sentence true.
...Oops, sorry, I wasn't fully awake yet and didn't know what I was saying.
Seriously, this is quite incredibly romantic, in a weird geeky sort of way. Good luck, Taco!
Reminder: find a new sig
What better way to propose...well...except for maybe in person, with a ring? When I get married can I propose on /. too?
~.Evanrude
that's not embarrasing, that's is very romantic (once in a lifetime). and this takes a lot of curage!
i hope the answer is yes.
We really should have given her first post.
Hot Damn! It's the Soggy Bottom Boys!
This rock, there you go dude! I hope she does marry you, if you got enough balls to say this on \. you got enough balls for everything! Good luck.
P.S.: KATE I LOVE YOU !!!
If you're under 25, Rob, you shouldn't be in such a hurry!
[ insert your own witty .sig here ]
Could this be a first post? Probably not! Good luck you two!
I guess he "first post" me...
A geek who would post his proposal this way is a very good catch.
Prime numbers are exactly what Alan Greenspan says they are -S. Minsky
Commander Taco becomes a married man! Geekfactor--. Webcast at 11.
Man, I hope for your sake there's only on Kathleen Fent.
Assuming, of course, that you don't live in Utah.
Congrats either way.
--saint
How cool is that! Good thing you didn't attach a link to her, or she would be slashdotted! Oh wait, she probably is!
{And I was just going to send flowers to my GF}
Gee, I wish someone would propose to me over the internet on a site that is overrun with countless visitors! (Does that make me a geek?)
Best wishes to both of you, if she doesn't want, maybe all slashdotters together might convnce her ;-)
Best wishes !!
I wish you the best of luck.
Rock on, man... That was great!
--
http://www.trackspace.com
I'm intrigued to see if her reply gets modded "Interesting", "Troll" or maybe "Flamebait". ;-))
good luck anyway!!
Happy Valentines Day,
Dirk
:-)
We want to see pictures of her reaction.
If you two get married, will you be all propritary towards her, or will she be open source?
God is real unless declared integer
If she says yes, congrats.
(appended to the end of comments you post, 120 chars)
One ring to rule them all?
First comes love, then comes marriage, then your wife throws away all of your old computer junk and you're left in an empty room. Oh, that's just the "Zen" decor.
;>
Oh well, good luck... it had to happen sometime or other...
What will the moderation on her response be? (+5, Insightful), (+5, Informative), (+5, Funny) or (-1, Troll)?
Wuv is in the air on Slashdot. It's a beautiful thing. And I don't mean that sarcastically. Go Taco!
Well, here's hoping she says yes. But would she be answering on Slashdot herself, or will you be posting a followup so we know the response?
Don't leave us hanging, man!
Imagine a beowulf cluster of ... euh ... ooops sorry, wrong story
-
#include "coucou.h"
This is why I still visit Slashdot. Way to go, Taco!
Ceci n'est pas un post
Hey Taco, you may have to adjust your scheduls not to come back to late at night and also to take your part of the home-related tasks, dish washing (okay : echo on > /dev/dishwasher) and so on.
Anyway, you're right, this is either romantic and also disappointing for the lady.
But now, are you sure you'll not only accept to act as her husband ?
Don't forget that such an explosive demand has to be unique.
Trolling using another account since 2005.
This is great. Congrats and all, but I can't wait to read the trolls in this one.
It hurts when I pee.
Do I have to read this thread all day to find the reply? I hope she posts with a +2.
~.Evanrude
Congratulations, both of you!
"from the typed-with-one-pair-of-sweating-palms dept."
Was first seen as "from the typed-with-one-sweating-palm dept."
Which seemed much less romantic.
God, I hate this 'holiday'.
Brant
Argle. Bargle.
because he spell-checked this post.
So what happens when Miss Fent gets pounded by a quarter of a million Slashdot readers? Ewwhh...
This is about the very last comment to make when commenting on someone else's intention to marry, I think.
There is absolutely no reason to panic.
Which one?
Although, now that I post that link, i see only one is listed. I guess out of the quarter of a million people there is only one Kathleen Fent.
But we can all call and congratulate her.
Do you Gentoo!?
WTG, CmdrTaco! Let's see how Microsoft reacts to this one:)
1. No, you will not call him Commander. Or Taco.
2. He will not make you metamoderate during sex. It's just not right.
3. Cowboyneal is NOT allowed to sleep at the foot of the bed.
4. He has to leave work at work. No logging in from home.
5. You will not be the subject of various polls.
and finally,
6. No open-sourcing bedtalk!
Best of wishes.
My wife made me promise that computers wouldn't be involved in my proposal.
I wish i had the first post on this story! This one will be remembered for a long time
:)
Congratulations to you both!
WOO HOO... No one can mod me down this time
Don't Panic
i'm trying to think of a +1, Insightful thing to say, but i feel i am underqualified.
;-)
I have a feeling she will give you an enthusiastic "Yes"
Be sure to UPDATE: us and congratulations on your courageous proposal.
=)
My poetry site welcomes the unusual.
!!!!!!
i am so very tired....
Seriously, congrats (I hope).
ceci n'est pas un sig.
I think we should get a Poll for this and see what the Slashdot community thinks! :)
1. Yes
2. No.
3. Marry CowboyNeal instead.
4. etcetcetc.
Kathleen, I hope you say yes. :-) Congrats to both of you! May you spend many happy nights up together plucking away at computers and be blessed with many little computer geeks. Congratulations!
Best of luck to you...let us know how it turns out. :-)
You know you are a geek when you ask someone to marry on on Slashdot.
Can we have a poll where we can vote on what her answer should be?
The world moves for love. It kneels before it in awe.
How does this fall into the topic of "News for Nerds" then? ;)
Dude, this is so fucking lame, its not even funny. She's going to call up her mom...
Kathleen: "Mom, Rob proposed!!"
Mom: "GREAT!!! How big is the ring??"
Kathleen: "Uhm... Well... There isn't a ring.."
Mom: "Oh..... I see... How did he propose?"
Kathleen: "Well.. It was on his website."
Mom: "Run. Run Like Hell. Don't look back."
(Somewhere on the Black Horse pike in New Jersey)
Say, do you want to get married...
(Screech)
(Did I mention she was driving...)
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
...Assuming you survive the ensuing beating, that is.
Is the 'GBA Internal Light Ready?' link part of the proposal?
Anyway, good luck to you too. Marry him Kathleen, whoever you are. And teach him how to spell.
Damn! I wish I had saved a couple of my moderator points. This would be a good thread to use them.
Now if she says no, everyone will know. That takes a lot of guts, probably indicative of a lot of trust and love. CmdTaco, you are an inpiration for geeks everywhere.
The masses are the crack whores of religion.
hey, how come you rejected this when i posted it?!
Cretin - a powerful and flexible CD reencoder
Yes, I'll marry you!
Oh wait, that wasn't for me? BREAK MY HEART WHY DON'T YOU!@@#@#
Moderation: Put your hand inside the puppet head!
What has this got to do with news for nerds?
Plenty. It's so rare, that every time a geek finds love, it should be treated like a court judgement against Microsoft! Another win for the underdog!
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
That's the last post we'll see from him. ;-)
happy valenties people.
thelikesofwhich.com
Good luck Rob. Congratulations.
Peace. Sway
Hey, how about a link to a picture?
sPh
what is slashdot now?
this is not why i read it, nor is it the purpose of slashdot.
OFF TOPIC, 'commander taco' >:-/
I can't decide whether this is just the ultimately geeky thing to do, or a ploy to get /. into the national news. Either way, I hope she accepts. Everyone deserves a little happiness. You go, Rob. Oh, and it's Valentine's Day. How womantic.
Is it so much to ask that you under stand two commonly used english words. 'Then' is a time. I will give you a swift kick in the nuts then. 'Than' compares to things. You will probably prefer a swift kick in the nuts to getting hot grits dumped down your pants. Understand? Learn it. Use it. Live it.
...and best of luck to both of you
How cowardly.
....One ring to bind them.
Seriously, I hope she says yes.
You will let us know what she says, won't you Taco?
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Oh My God! I would have NEVER thought anything like this would have been posted on Slashdot!
If it doesn't work out, dude, I'll marry you.
burnboy
Go for it dude!
But be careful.. if you marry her, she's entitled to half of your mod points! Pre-nup!
Damn you Taco! Now Slashdot will really suck! This is just like the musical buffy episode.
Damn you, Damn you to Hell!
Oh and I hope she says yes.
This
You hate spam and yet you post something like this for the entire world to see. You will get spam for the next few weeks saying congrats, then for the next few months sayin "has it happened yet??", then for the next year saying "WANT TO MAKE YOUR PENIS GROW 12 INCHES IN 2 WEEKS?"
so, do we get an update story on the answer of this one when it comes or what?
Dude, this is so fucking lame, its not even funny. She's going to call up her mom...
Kathleen: "Mom, Rob proposed!!"
Mom: "GREAT!!! How big is the ring??"
Kathleen: "Uhm... Well... There isn't a ring.."
Mom: "Oh..... I see... How did he propose?"
Kathleen: "Well.. It was on his website."
Mom: "Run. Run Like Hell. Don't look back."
It's a question: Shouldn't this have gone under "Ask Slashdot?" :)
Good luck, Taco...
Okay, I really hope that:
but there are some things, even in our geeky computer-loving world, that need to be done in person. If you're going to ask a girl to marry you, you do it *in person*, looking her *in the eyes*, *on your knees*, like a man. You owe both of you that much.
Anyway, best of luck to both of you and much happiness to you.
"Honey, it's not working out; I think we should make our relationship open-source."
Is there nothing you're prepared to spellcheck? ;-)
Tales from behind the Lagom Curtain
Is this informative or a troll? ;-)
Tele Communications Protocol / Internet Proposal Standards tested today on Slashdot.
Will the first test be successful?
We are still waiting for the results.
42 - So long and thanks for all the fish.
...to the grand merging of your CVS trees
A quick google search turned up this image....
Yeah right, she can't possibly say no now.
Coming Soon:
Slashback: Divorce
I hope she posts the reply - if not, then please "forward" it Taco because you've got a lot of fingers crossed for you here. :)
Also waiting to see how many people follow suit (probably those who have proposed today anyway).
Congrats.
James
I submitted this story a week ago, and it was rejected!
The world moves for love. It kneels before it in awe.
Hmmm... I woulda thought that CowboyNeal was the only one for you... He's going to be heartbroken, but maybe we'll see an increase in his populatiry on the polls...
all my
yay! congrats!
Once you get married, all your base are belong to her.
Yeah, like us geeks weren't going to find this... Sarcasta.Net
Pics
Bryan J. Casto
bryan.casto(a)gmail.com
on a much smaller scale....
2 -17&res=l
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=1999-0
Of course you'll be inviting your closest 20,000 friends to the event. We'll do the Chicken Dance and drink until we love humanity again. I promise not to knock over the cake table!
Good luck!
m l
Here's a couple of sites that might come in handy:
A guide to buying engagement rings:
http://www.boodleanddunthorne.com/leap/index.ht
And a look at one of the world's best jewellers:
http://www.graff-uk.com/
[Disclaimer: I got my wife's engagement ring at Graff]
Would she change her name to Kathleen Taco or Kathleen Fent-Taco?
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to post her answer ! And we want a photo of the marriage as well ! :-)
Go back while you still can! You have no idea what you're in for when you ge....
What? No, honey, I'm just typing a message on Slashdot. Yes dear, I'll take the garbage out.
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
Yes, Taco. Yes I will.
Wait a minute... who's Kathleen?
A Transmission From PlanetJIM.[end trans]
SAY NO!!!
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
a) I do b) No way! c) Canadians d) CmdrTaco?
Seriously, congratulations to you both, if she accepts. Otherwise, congratulations to Kathleen for being the object of CmdrTaco's affection, and my condolences to CmdrTaco for being successful in his professional life, but a woeful failure in matters personal.
http://www.fent.net/archive/archive9.html
Shouldn't this have been a poll?
Oh wait, which to choose? CmdrTaco or Cowboy Neal?!?!?!?!
Tim Dorr
Owner/Manger
A Small Orange
if you love her, dont marry her, she will be gone before you can blink!
nothing pisses off a woman more than having a ring on her finger.
that is the coolest, nerdiest thing *ever*. Go, rob.. rule on
This site may give a slight clue...
Well there is the issue of if IQ goes down in proportion to the size of the mob times the average intelligence.
For example, an individual scientist might be brilliant, but a group of them can be pretty dumb.
On this basis, the collective IQ around here has got to be heading into negative numbers.
[Joke! Joke!]
Of course, we are all waiting to see if
1) she replies in this forum,
2) if the reply is moderated to 5+.
3) Or will it go to -1 as redundant
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
BTW, I believe that I've met this Kathleen Fent. She's a real friendly girl.
What the subject says.
I have my fingers crossed for you in Manchester :-)
:-)
Hope she says yes
How ironic...
I spent a good three minutes making an ASCII heart that says "SAY YES!" over and over again, but your own lameness filter prevented me from posting it, Rob!
If you celebrate Xmas, befriend me (538
Unix or Windows?
Free or Proprietary?
DMCA or Fair Use?
Vi or Emacs?
GPL or BSD?
Gnome or KDE?
C or C++ or Java or C# or ...?
Linux or GNU/Linux?
I'm not sure how to top this one... I get to propose Saturday. Unfortunately, my girlfriend doesn't read /. :(
I guess I have to do mine the old-fashioned way.
:)
All the best!
Thunder
No
I will marry you, you are such a smooth operator.
Thanks, Steve
No typos. Passable grammar.
Kathleen, he actually thought about this one...
All the best to ya both.
"Consider yourself a member of a virtual corporation with Mr. Torvalds as your Chief Executive Officer." - Linux Advocac
Either way, won't be seeing much of Taco for quite some time ........
... Sure hope that the moderators spent that few extra minutes to try and locate her answer and mod it up.
I wish you many happy years together.
"Kathleen, I wanted to do this in this most potentially embarassing way possible"
The real question is embarrassing for you or for her? =)
There should be a moratorium on the use of the apostrophe.
Max V.
NeXTMail/MIME Mail welcome
... Slashdot is getting worse every day.
If you propose on ./, is she allowed to answer "CowboyNeal"?
That was a pretty cagey move -- if she says 'yes', you have a quarter of a million people that will wish you well.
:-)
On the other hand, if she says 'no', you have a quarter of a million people to buy you drinks, and say that she wasn't good enough for you anyway...
Seriously -- best of luck to both of you!
Good luck Taco, and Kathleen. A most auspicious begining!
ceci n'est pas un 'sig'
How could anyone resist that. Its a great thing to come here first thing in the morning and see something like this... Good luck and congratulations to you both!
No mention of an engagement ring... Hmmm, maybe he got her a token ring prior to this.
Heh.
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
Don't listen to the cynical bastards Taco. Being married is fun. I'm coming up on my first year as a married man and it has been the happiest year of my life. The only problem is that we only have one computer with internet access, so that kinda causes some strife. But not too bad.
Oh and guys, the divorce and marriage hell jokes are funny and all. But it's gonna take hearing the same one (and they are all the same) all of five times before he is sick of it. When somebody is getting married the last thing they want to hear about is how bad yours was. If it was as bad as some people let on, they never should have gotten married to them in the first place. Sorry to be so serious, I just remember how much that crap annoyed me a year ago.
You could have used this service.
;^)
Sanity.html - Error 404 not found
"Yes, I'll marry you!!!!!!"
Error: Too many requests / server error.
If Nalgene water bottles are outlawed, only outlaws will have Nalgene water bottles.
I suggest the goatse.cx guy... Except for Katz, he is the most disturbing regular /. participant.
Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel. -
This is the online equivilent of the idiotic frat-boy who buys a towed banner that says "Marry Me, " and has it flown over a college football game for 50,000 people to see.
Romance is dead.
Oh Yes Yes Yes
Moderation Totals: Redundant=3, Offtopic=3 Total=-1.
Compatible across all platforms and user-friendly. Best of all, no M$ Security Patches and no DMCA quandries.
Just remember to let Social Security and Ashcroft know your new name, for um, tax purposes.
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
What's Kathleen's /. userid so we can look for her response?
"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson
Really!
Kathleen, say yes to him damnit, or we'll mod you down!
Yes.
What girl wont be persuaded by the romance in reading a bunch of profane, filthy troll comments at the end of a marriage proposal?
My nipples are hard just thinking of it.
a simple YES answer which wouldnt go thru the Lameness Filter ....
or modded as troll for FP !!
Oh come on... this should have gotten a few moderator points just for the fact that he took some time out of his busy daily sched. just to create a Kathleen Fent account. At least mod it to "1, Funny"
Slashdot your girlfriends web site!
;-)
BTW, Taco, could you imagine a beowulf cluster of Katherine Fents?
I hope she says yes.
Hope she doesn't get moded down. Hahaha
doh!! way to go, Taco!!
Oh can we please change the colors of slashdot for today to pink and reds... maybe put little hearts everywhere too.... That'd be sooooo nice and romantic.
Congratulations CmdrTaco
There is no
If you're going to post it now, at least post some details
ie:
who is asking to marry her
what effect this will have on her privacy
Will the marriage invitations use 64 bit encryption for rsvp security?
This place is really going down the drain. - Jong
Congratulations, guys. Now just tell me what colour you want the Beowulf cluster to be.
Carousel is a lie!
Congratulations
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Like this one.
I only read the first half... it's a very bizarre story.
I demand a million helicopters and a DOLLAR!
Good luck to you both
.. I'm suprised that this was posted on slashdot.... Does Kathleen Fent run on linux? What is the most recent version? Hell, What does it do? Can I download it from sourceforge and compile it on my leet 386sx?
this _is_ original! :)
Good luck to you both, let the love live long! =)
cheers
kage-chan
anyway, good luck to you Taco, now we all wait for the update...
--
making up good sigs is a hard thing to do.
What did she say?
Of course she cried; if a woman doesn't cry, then you just didn't get it right. Besides, that is the best part for us - it shows she really loves you.
.JPG of Slashdot and that email now - gotta have something for the grandkids before your HDD dies :)
Burn a CDR with
Congrats to the both of you guys :^)
I wish you both the best of luck, and hopefully we'll get some nice wedding pics :^)
Give him some credit, who else would think about posting to slashdot?
Sunny
We've been together for many years now, and I've known for most of that time that I wanted to spend my life with you. Enough rambling. Will you marry me?
Shut-up. Just shut-up. You had me at hello. You had me at hello...
If you celebrate Xmas, befriend me (538
Have a nice life together!
good luck and i hope you guys have a great future together
"After all, we're all alike."
Does this mean you're gonna put out the next episode of Geeks in Space?
In a little bit more seriousness, congrats to you too if she says yes. And on the off chance if she says no then you'll have a quarter-million people willing to buy you a few rounds of your favourite liquor.
----------
Just your ordinary BOFH
http://killertux.org
OK, that was odd... but best of luck to you anyway. You're gonna get wedding presents from slashdotters, now. That was your whole plan, wasn't it!
-- Minds are like parachutes... they work best when open.
When is she going to login and let the /. world know if he will not be celebrating Singles awarnes day.
/usr/bin/yes
Just wanted to wish you all the best; good luck together and hope you have an amazing life together. Take care.
May you both live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
As I lack something smart to say, I just say: Congratulations!
I think that this was worthy of inventing a whole new icon, no? :)
do i have enough moderator points to attend the wedding?
Awwww!
The only thing that we learn from history is that nobody learns anything from history.
Good luck! We stopped by Blockstackers to clap, but you had to go and work from home. Cheers from TIG.
I wish both of you the best of luck.
-rev
Now stop stalking me!
Congrats Rob!
I have to say its a pretty slick way of asking her, and I am glad she responded so quick (I can see Taco clicking send/recieve every 2 seconds until the reply came).
Best of luck to you both, and post wedding pics!!!!!!
Zeno
Yeah, i did the exact same thing when i saw that one as when i saw this. AWWWWW!!! Damn, i'm such a girl. And such a sucker for geeky ways of doing things.
Congrats, you two!!
So, will it be an "Open" marrage?
Congrats - best of luck to both of you!
_sig_ is away
Mate of course you know thats its the end of all those late night pub crawl's dont you?
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You'll need it, big as she's going to get. Always check their mommas first, for a sneak preview of life down the road.
When I first saw the post, I thought it was a Valentine's joke, then realized it was serious, then thought 'that is the coolest thing I have ever seen.' Congratulations you two!
May your lives together be long and filled with joy. 8-)
-Carik
Too much Kathleen in my system... Song by Cool Blue Halo :)
Love that song. If ya want it Cmdr, just e me and I'll shot the MPG to ya. Great tune. Romantic but not sugary. Could be your song!
Always willing to further the love bug. It's the only virus the Net needs! Wow, I'm am high...
Well, congradulations are in order... best of luck you two...
Congratulations! :)
-Former Hope College CS student
Kathleen Taco?
Two years and this is important enough to register today. Happy St. Valentine and good luck!!!!
Then they lived happely....
The story doesnt tell if mr. slash and his new wife got some small dots. Or did they have small dots before the marrige.
No moderation on this post, please, I just wish to add my two cents on this historic occasion.
Congratulations, Taco, and good luck.
I will now step aside for all the inevitable beowulf, first post, meta-moderation, CowboyNeal, etc. jokes.
~Chazzf
No statement is true, not even this one.
Congrats Taco! Happy for you man.
(Assuming she says yes. If not, then insert the male bonding slam of the lady of your choice. Either way I got your back)
-- When a fool hears of the Tao, he will laugh out loud.
Here's a challenge fer ya. First person to make an ontopic, tasteful comment about this proposal and subsequent acceptance using three of the following:
1. Hot grits
2. Emacs vs. vi
3. Microsoft SuX0rs
4. PostgreSQL vs. MySQL
5. RMS SuX0rs
6. Jon Katz really SuX0rs
7. Goatse.cx
8. One of: Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings
9. Patents and Intellectual Property
10. Id Software
Moderators pick the winner.
--------
Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
so we can moderate up!
DO NOT DISTURB THE SE
Better yet, can you imagine a Beowulf Cluster of Kathleen Fents?
I'm coming up on my ten year anniversary this June. Being married is better than being single. Really.
Congratulations.
P.S. - Taco's not the first to use his website to propose, see also Gabe
CONGRATS!!! That surprised the heck out of me! Who would have thought. It's the perfect day for it too.
BA
"If you only knew the POWER of the DARK SIDE!"
NC.
May you have many happy years.
Update 15 minutes :)" Hazah! I'm getting married! :)
30 seconds later: Subj: "Yes", message body: "Dork. You made me cry.
Fine job, man... Fine job. Don't worry. Marriage only sucks HALF as bad as everyone says.
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Good Luck!
What you loose for the cliché of proposing on Valentine's Day you more than make up for in style and originality. The, "Dork, you made me cry" gives you both a huge bonus too laughing.
We are both very happy for you. Congratulations. Will you be registering at Think Geek?!?!?
best wishes,
/ijk & seh
Congrats!!!!
Enjoy marriage and a lifetime of coding PERL together!
www.slightlycrewed.com - Because aren't we all?
Buy him a dictionary as a wedding gift.
Someone you trust is one of us.
It's not a flame!
It's just being silly! Geez, how many slashbacks have we all seen in our day?
Now this is the kind of thing I love about this place. Congrats to both of you!
Congrats! :)
But are we all invited to the wedding?
...and hopefully you'll make history and not repost this story after a month :)
Can we slashdot the wedding cake?
"...in front of a quarter of a million strangers..."
Who are you calling strange?
Congrats man!
Having been a frequent vistitor since the site opened way back in 97 all I have to say is it couldn't have happened to a nicer, geekier guy =)
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
this is my first ever post, although i'm a longtime reader. i've got to say that this site really lightens my day. the sense of community is great, even in a digitally impersonal medium. so thank you to all / members and workers. i can get news anywhere, but posts and reactions like this one are why i visit /.
jambay
- the only constant is change
May you make each other happy to the end of your days.
Blaze a trail to the New World
Congratulations. And may you have many happy years.
May you have as many children as you get hits per day on Slashdot!
(Gonna be a big family...)
"Black holes are where God divided by zero." - Steve Wright
Wish you'll be happy ever after....
I'm from Argentina: Tango, Asado, Mate, Gaucho, Maradona, YPF
... take it upon themselves to mod down the other +5s as '-1, not Kathleen's reply'? :)
IAAL,BIANLY
Married life is excellent - go for it.
Oh well, never thought I'd see the day when I'd try and post an informative post on a proposal on Valentines day, but anyways, for those of you who are ignorant of who Kathleen is, check out this site.
;-)
Sorry, couldn't resist
All the best in your new life.
Cheers!
POKE 53281,1 POKE 53280,0
Congratulations!
The willingness to face rejection and embarass someone in front of an international audience of geeks.
So do we all get invited to the wedding?
Here I go and create a k_fent login so I can toy with your emotions for a bit and now it's too late.
But what about our Love Child!?!?
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Will there be a honeymoon cam????
Everyone knows the Slashdot editor moderate posts using SQL. Mod her up to +6 so it's above everyone else.
How do you like the sound of that?!?!
Slashdot's rate-of-post filter: Preventing you from posting too many great ideas at once.
Way to go dude !
But please teach him how to spell. Best of luck to you both.
Love,
Jay and Silent Bob
I'd say congradulations but i'm not sure I'd spell it correctly. But seriously, have a great valentines day :)
Way to go. 'nuff said.
Guys, congratulations. As I always say to my buddies, any girl that helps you build a MAME cab is a keeper. :)
Best of wishes. Good job on the sappily romantic... Dork, you made me cry... hope that one day, my girlfriend responds in about the same way.
So, last question... webcast the wedding for all of us here at slashdot???
I am disrespectful to dirt! Can you see that I am serious?!
*sniff* Most romantic thing I've seen in a long time. Damn near made me cry. Best wishes for the future Taco and Kath, from all the Ozzie geeks Down Under!
Janie took my gun...
Cant wait to see the pics :)
Kathleen took her 15 mins. Was this an accident,
or was she thinking "oop..I'll wait that 15 mins
to get that wrapped on the side too."
Congrats!
mrsoros
building the beaowolfe cluster of little taco-fents?
Getting married on Valentine's Day saves you one set of gifts and makes for one less date to forget.
will it be relayed live to /.?
broadcast on some live video feed?
ppv?
Don't make fun of my speling, english is my 2nd language...
Wow! That's all it takes? A post on /.?
Michelle Pfeiffer, I love you, will you....
Er, what? He _knew_ this Kathleen chick?
Aw, crap.
Congratulations, both! Now, Kathleen, will you please teach the man how to spell "than?"
Good luck to both of you!!!
Geeks without social lives celebrating geeks with social lives. (Not, um, that I don't, um, have a social life or anything.)
Congratulations to the both of you!
We do, of course, expect to see wedding pictures in a future story.
this is the most fascinating way i ever seen. congratulation CmdrTaco !!
... to you both!
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
Moderators are out for blood today.
CONGRATS!
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Will you marry my Katz? I want some homosexual loving, and you're the only one who'll accept me, donkey wang and all. Remeber when we first met down in old mexico and I was molesting tourists. You came up to my tent and told me what beautiful donkey eyes I had and we made love like donkeys untill the sunrise, its a moment I will never forget! I LOVE YOU KATZ, PLEASE MARRY ME!!!!!
-RWD 2002, Retards Need Loving Too
Congratz Taco!
I, CmdrTaco, take you Kathleen, as my lawfully wedded ICQ buddie. Through IPO's and stock busts, till Microsoft tear us apart. Amen.
Asking a girl to marry you on Slashdot, and having her reply on Slashdot.
:)
I don't know if this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen, or one of the most pathetic.
Good luck guys!
Congratulations!! You damn near made me cry. This is my debut post, by the way, so if I did anything wrong please be gentle.
www.lifewithageek.com
I am sure that this article will be saved and preserved in the Slashdot hall of fame. 15 years from now your kids will read what I am saying now wondering if the person posting this even knows you.
Anyway, no I don't. but best of luck. Geek chicks rule. (I have one too!)
Here
Rob or Kathleen- How about posting a pic of the ring for all to see? I mean, what kind of proposal is it with no rock?
_sig_ is away
Congrats Taco, ya big dork =)
I guess that's all I have to say. Best of luck to you both and Happy Valentines Day!
So, will it be an "Open" marrage?
No, not "open". GNU is all about the word "free" as in they're "free" to break up at any time :-)
Will I retire or break 10K?
1) Not a single typo.. I guess whe you care, you can do it.. Now, care daily..
/. sans Taco's personal life.
2) Wasn't this posted before??
3) Imagine a beowulf cluster of Kathleen Fent's. A veritable harrem..
3) Can we see pics of her, nake and petrified, covered in hot grits.
and, the actual point:
4) When some red-neck hick rents a big-screen at a sporting event in order to propose, it's mildly sweet.. When the arena manager does it for himself, it's downright unprofessional. You really should have hired a sky-writer or something..
I kiss you! All your babe are belong to Taco! Congrats.. We now return you to a
The REAL jabber has the user id: 13196
What you do today will cost you a day of your life
I can just see it now...a Slashdot marriage proposal and dating service pairing Geeks together. After that it will be the Slashdot Newlywed Game and a Slashdot book entitle "Men are from Mars, Women are from Mars". Lord forbid, maybe even the Slashdot Divorce Court with CowboyNeal as the presiding judge.
In all seriousness, congrats to the wedded couple to be.
---------------------- Women love me, fish fear me ----------------------
With this relationship (that has been in Beta forever) reaching status 'rc1' (proposal), and 'rc2' (the "yes") we can soon expect relationship v1.0 (the actual marriage). And we all know that OSS never gets to v1.0 so we expect this marriage to be closed source for the rest of us, and suspect that the source of your happiness is known to only the both of you... May you have an open , honoust and happy relationship for the rest of your lives...
MarsDude
This page was generated by a Squadron of Cyber Cupids for CmdrTaco and kathleen.
If you are confused about the context of a particular comment, just link back to the love page through the marriage link...
All the best!
Sweet, geeky, romantic...whatever. This whole thing has made me smile. I wish the two of you the best of everything for the future.
**queen riff**
Another one bites the dust...
You think emacs is evil?! You've never used VM's XEDIT have you?!! That's evil, baby!
the real problem will be working this into the best man speach ....
oh and who is going to be the best man ??
have fun
regards
john 'ijured knee' jones
Kathleen Fent submits a "Should I Marry CmdrTaco" to Ask Slashdot.
lots of love for you two
cheers
Well I guess that demanding a girl is the cheapest Valentine present she will accept.
May you both have a long and happy live together.
OK, everybody back to the salt mine. No move it!
--- Think of it as evolution in action ---
Well done to CmdrTaco for having the balls to do this! And congratulations to the pair of you, I'm sure everyone wishes you every future happiness.
Cheers,
nick.
Here
Congrats, Kathleen and Taco. So when should we expect to hear the pitter-patter of little chalupas?
On behalf of the geeks of the world, congratulations. Are we invited to the wedding?
OK, I'm gonna get modded down to nothing... But someday you WILL remember this post. I give it 1 year, maybe two.
SAVE YOURSELF! RUN AWAY AS FAST AS YOU CAN! DON'T DO IT!!!!
OK, do your worst...
:-p
Congradulations! I and the rest of Sabre's Domain wish you both the best of luck! Now I just need to find myself a geek girl ;)
Sabre
Sabre
SysOp Sabre's Domain
Think they'll let you register there...nothing says romance like a ruby neon glow shimmering from the depths of a case...
Again, congrats to you both and best of luck.
Warmest wishes,
/ijk & seh
Congratz and mad propz, Rob.
(now that the update is here...)
hehe, Cmdr and Kathleen Taco!
i wish you all the very best!
--
making up good sigs is a hard thing to do.
Of the time I asked my wife for a divorce by posting nude photos of her to the Net...
*dabbing tears*
:)
I submitted the same story and it was rejected!
Guess I know why now...Damn you Taco!
GL!
I gave myself to Jesus, but now he never calls
As a silent faithful daily reader for nearly 5 years, I've followed so many stories of interest, but none has ever compelled me so immediately to figure out where the reply button was! Congratulations Rob! WooHoo!
:)
Having recently gotten engaged myself, and having put some thought into unusual proposals, I must say, you picked perhaps the ultimate geek proposal. Many geeks will be envious tonight.
Cheers!
Aaron Joyner
aaronatjoynerdotws
Congrats! And on Valentine's Day, too - what a hopeless romantic.
:-)
If it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
First, congrats!
:-)
But if you were going to ask her on-line, shouldn't you have made sure your site, at least, would be able to handle the inevitable slashdot effect?
Milalwi
...you can probably borrow the Han Solo / Princess Leia cake topper that we used at our Wedding.
Thank you for bringing a sweet sentimental tear to my eye this morning. Geek love r00lz.
(/local/home/curiosity)-#who -u|grep thecat|cut -c 44-49|xargs kill -9
Congrats you two. Best wishes.
If not now, when?
I had my wife try out an application I was working on, saying I needed someone who had never seen it before to test it. After 4 boring dialog boxes and 2 error messages it suddenly showed a big flashy screen, and my proposal came screaming from the speakers. Lots of tears then too :]
:>
Again: Good luck Rob and have lots of kids. They are quite a bit noisier than computers but a helluva lot more fun to make and have
karma capped
Congatulations!
But you know, this -should- have been modded (-1, Saccharine Sweetness) -- that stuff causes cancer, you know! Not to mention (-1, Twisting the Knife of Bitterness in the Hearts of All Geeks Who are Alone on Valentines Day). But on the other hand, it should get several fat (+1, Making All the Trolls Feel Vaguely Uncomfortable About Trolling, For One Article at Least).
Haha. Congrats again -- be happy.
The enemies of Democracy are
You realise that hundreds of geeks the world over are going to be so touched by this story that they're all going to go off and propose to their girlfriends.
:)
Well, those that have girlfriends.
Now the question is... what'll li'l Luitenant jg Taco be like?
OFTC: By the community, for the community
"It's here, but no one wants it." - The Sugar Speaker
We all cried!
Well I guess this beats some boring story other people will tell their kids of how they proposed...
-AlPhAbEt
But will he be "Free" as in able to drink Beer all night with the boys?
How many times do you think Taco hit reload in that 15 minutes and 30 seconds?
And every time some spam arrived......
Must have been a brutal quarter hour.
Congrats.
You really won't admit you forgot to aquire a valentine's present, will you ?
I just wanted my name listed on the 'Taco Gets Married' story. That's really my only reason.
Congrats Taco! Way cool way to propose.
Now I can return to being depressed about being single.
El riesgo vive siempre!
CONGRATS TACO!!!!!!
Judging from the email she sent accepting, she sounds like quite a girl!
--
I though my mom would enjoy this story. She's a sappy romantic. So, I e-mailed her.
Her reply:
"When are you going to move out of the house? You're 30 years old for God's sake!"
Crongrats CmdrTaco!
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James
At least someone is going to have a good valentines day!
well CmdrTaco, you better have a real expensive wedding because as you said yesterday "you get what you pay for" :)
As of today I will offical not accept any proposal that does not occur on a weblog.
Best of luck..
Australianus Geekus
This is the nerdiest thing I have ever seen, I'm in awe. Proposal on /., acceptance via email? Wow.
Wow, I can never hope to top that... Unless perhaps I propose via Everquest... I'm sure that's been done, though.
Congratulations.
Just thought I would add my voice to the din to wish you both well for the future.
;-)
If I did something like this my girlfriend would run a mile so you must be on to something.
Good luck.
I expect the site to be renamed to fentdot.org any day now.
Women do that, you know.
Congratulations!!!!!!
V.
Following a long honored tradition may I ask: where is the mirror?
Congrats.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
1) Weee, Congrats dude!
:)
... now that you're getting married, you'll have a wife and perhaps children etc. but ... but ... what about us slashdotters? We're your family!? We love you! You won't leave us alone, will you?
2) Thanks for letting us take part of that
3) But, Oh no
Err, yeah well, this was supposed to be funny, umkay?
Life sucks.
...and you bought it.
;-)
This is just a ploy to kill all the "CmdrTaco is Gay" crapfloods
Best of luck to the both of you Taco. Might I suggest DisneyWorld for the honeymoon. Its where my wife & I went, and it was great.
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of them...
"Love is never saying you're too proud." -Tonic
Now the big question - will she change her name to Kathleen Taco?
Rings for Engagment. Proposals for Marriage
"All I can tell the "lesser of two evils" folks is that if they keep voting for evil, they'll keep getting evil."-Lp.org
Wow, two geeks getting married. That is the best slashdot Valentine's day post ever. Good luck you crazy kids. So if they have a son will he be private burrito?
Ok, given the number of "Congratulations" posts we're getting, I think everything's been said, but here we go anyway:
Omedeto Gozaimasu!
Maran
Yes, you would be gruntled. Go look at www.m-w.com to verify. :)
I cant find the Anti-Microsoft-Jihad connection
Congrats Taco!
Good luck to you both!
quis custodiet ipsos custodes - Juvenal
EOM
Probably wouldn't work.
Last post!
Remember to compliment the size of his CVS tree occasionally!
My deepest sympathy, Kathleen.
Dear Taco,
Congratulations!! I hope the both of you are happy for many years to come.
I'd like to be the first to volenteer my time to watch over Slashdot while you two go on your honeymoon. I promise I won't break anything or troll while your away from the store.
I'm AC, but I'm not that AC!!
How does she feel about what you've done to her? Left her for someone with the same short name. You cruel, cruel bastard.
To both of you, as well as two your two feline friends :) Good luck in all your endeavors.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. --Winston Churchill
simply put... congratulations
85% of Americans think this signature sucks
and we just celebrated our second anniversary on Feb 11, after first emailing on Feb 6 :-) I look at the Slashdot story I posted to and it makes me smile every time :-)
Christine
Congratulations on the happy news!!! Howdy, folks! I finally took the plunge and posted for the first time after reading /. for ages!
The geekygirl from Texas
Go Rob!
Congratulations !!!!
I hope you have a very long and happy life together.
Iain
"Because we are not employing at entry level, offshoring will kill our industry stone dead."
Cos its sure as hell is slow here!
pooptruck
Yes, I just wanted to get a post in on the proposal topic. Hey, At least I am honest. *Cringes and puts on "Anti-ModDown" Helmet* What do we call her? Mrs. Cowbow Neal? "Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. " Joseph Barth
this made me smile, I wish both of you a happy life together.
--
What is the sound of this sentence?
-Cyc
/.'s 10 Millionth
1) Not a single typo.. I guess whe you care, you can do it..
Mr. Pot, I'd like to introduce you to my esteemed friend, Mr. Kettle...
"If you're thinking what I'm thinking, you're right." -
Nah, he's probably just going call fork() multiple times, but only 2-3 child processes will result.
09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0
I know this will probably never be read but I just wanted to wish you both a very hearty congratulations!
I also wanted to give you a bit of advice if you don't mind.
After you've both been married for a while you will begin to get sick of each other. It happens to everyone right at about the 7-year mark. Just keep being honest with each other and wait for that 8th year to role around. I can promise you a long and very happy marriage if you just talk (bitch, groan, complain just let it out and move on).
Again Congratulations!
..which just shows that the human brain is ill-adapted for thinking and was probably designed for cooling the blood-T P
First off, congrats! Secondly, can we see some pictures of the happy couple?
./make children
.Makefile .. spawn process to many children
or xmkmf mistress imake
?
Way to go and good luck/Best Wishes!!!
Is anyone else noticing how Slashdot itself seems to have been Slashdotted by its users all flooding the server with queries to get Kathleen's reply? Er wait, maybe it's all cmdrtaco's obsessive refreshing alone! :)
<i>I love you more then I can describe within the limits of this tiny little story.</i>
<br><br>
Typo. then != than
This
Just another dailer reader who enjoys Taco's articles. Really man best of luck, that took some guts.
If everyone has to fly out for the wedding, this means we will get another Geeks-In-Space episode.
Jeff needs the oportunity to publicly make-fun of Taco to even the score...
I submitted this a week ago, but they wouldn't post it!
Good luck!
I love you more then I can describe
Cripes, Taco, you couldn't even use a grammar-checker on this, the most important posting of your life?
Having said that, congratulations, and (I think I speak for more than a few Slashgeeks here) f--- you for reminding me that tonight I'll be going home to heat up a can of Chef Lonelyheart's Soup For One.
~Philly
Congratz - now that's a way to do up Valentine's Day
...one person in this group who is chronically underestimated is me.
News for Nerds.
Nerds mate. Film at 11.
Stuff that matters.
And it's about frickin' time we had something here that matters. Congratulations to both of you.
Not much else to say, but my best wishes to you both!
The Free desktop that Just Works
or it would have been 5 very large paragraphs wondering if people really *can* fall in love in these times of strife, war, politics, information superhighway, technology, and the whole point would have gotten lost in the drivel.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
who should be the best man?
Cowboy Neal!
Congratulations!!!
Delbert
Way to go taco! Congrats you two. Best wishes.
Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
say yes, goatsex man!!
Congrats on the wedding.
All Troll + "offtopic" mods are meta moderated as "Unfair", because you abused the system.
The "Buffy the Musical" episode was anything but jumping the shark. It was entertaining in it's own right, advanced the story and has been a high point of this entertaining season.
I realize that your knee-jerk geekly instinct must be to reject anything creative and/or musical. That's just sad.
Congradulations!
Thomas Galvin
This is actually pretty lame.
T-1 connection: $1,000/month
Slashcode GPL: free
Proposing marriage on your own website and having your beloved say "yes," priceless.
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
Heartiest of congratulations and best wishes, Rob and Kathleen!
May your love grow and may you find much happiness in the days ahead!
+1, funny hahahahahahahahha, I wish I had mod points!!!
I'm not much of a 1337 hax0r, but if I were, that would be one box I'd love to root.
Wow. Congrats to both of you.
:-)
And let's make this the most commented story ever. A gift from the Slashdot community.
You're right. It reminds me of this interesting bbspot news item.
Anyway, congratulations and good luck.
Like science? Comics? Wicked...
Funny By Nature
-yokimbo (samurai coder, self proclaimed mathematarian - aka non-practicing mathematician)
Ometedou!
Quenya (nice and topical; must learn it for the marriage of friends of mine) ?
Java (Marry Once Love Anywhere) ?
C++ (and a template for other geeks) ?
Perl (Messy but loadza fun, outsiders will always wonder) ?
Python (don't visualize that ! urgh, too late) ?
All the very best !
-- Any sufficiently advanced level of incompetence is indistinguishable from malice
Go big g-dog. Slashdot that ass!
Just don't try to build a cluster out of the children.
Why is this message not :)"
"Subject: Yes
----
Dork. You made me cry
as advertised in the story. I smell a conspiracy.
The handbook pretty plainly states that if you have a life, you must be stripped of all your geekly honors and be forced to drive a mini-van. I'm afraid we can't make any exceptions. Please check your dual athlon at the door on the way out.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Wow, now that is freedom. Free beer, that is. When is the big day?
...and good luck! :)
Any sufficiently advanced influence is indistinguishable from control.
Congrats Rob!!!!!! :>
Glad to hear it. Good job on the way you did it. First proposal I have ever scene like this.
Welcome to the bedroom battlefield!.
Just remember, it now no longer a question of who. It is a question of when.
Either give it away or get top dollar, but never sell yourself cheap.
CmdrTaco,
Congratulations to you both!
Specter
"So, you wanna get married or something?".
Congrats. Buy everything you want NOW!!!!!
If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem
So romantic, the eProposal. In true geek fashion he avoids the personal contact.
Granted any geek with a girlfriend is amazing enough and certainly deserves mention on the Slashdot front page, that she said yes is even more news worthy.
Then of course, there is the romantic answer; Dork. You made me cry. . Seems that they are made for each other. Oh, excuse me, I nee..
BARF!!
Way to go!
Good luck and all that!
Congratulations Rob and Kathleen. Been married for six years myself and we even have a shorty who's 10 months old. It's great, especially if you have managed to find a fellow geekette who understands the need to have computer parts lying around the house, a poster of HAL 9000 in the bedroom, etc.
As for those criticising Taco's choice of proposal venue, it's his friggin' site, for crying out loud. If he wants to propose here, he damn well can. If you have a problem with it, you're probably bitter because you're D.I.H. on another Valentine's Day
CmdrTaco's think that they are the only persons on this planet!
Stupider like a fox! - H.S.
dear sir
I fear that you will be takeing a redhead from the singles population and placeing her into the married population. I find this kind of act intolerable as there are very few of them left as it is.
regards
john jones
Better get used to hearing that. Otherwise, congrats.
You did well Taco. Better than me :-) Mine left me on New Years evening, got back with me and left me a few days ago... Through email of all things.. Talk about spineless... Well best of luck :-)
Am I lying when I tell you that im telling the truth? Or am I telling the truth when I say that Im lying?
Congrats!
Congratulations and good luck.
Take my advice Rob, go simple. Kathleen, really, you do not want a big wedding.
I've heard people say, "The wedding is for the family, the honeymoon is for the couple." I say screw that. Have the wedding you want. All the headaches of a wedding are really not worth it.
For instance, my wife and I got to 2 notebook pages of people, and started cutting. We ended up having a lot of fun with a small number of people, and it was still almost too many people.
-- Who is the bigger fool? The fool or the fool who follows him? --
I haven't seen such gross misuse of /. since the other day when someone post a 2.5.x kernel update story.
Congrats.
Smeghead every day of the week.
This is cool .. may your marrage be long and happy
then getting your site slashdotted.
Read the subject, rejoice, repeat!
Woohooo! Way to go Rob! Good luck to the both of you guys!
Wow. This suddenly reminded me that today is Valentine's day. I really need to get a life... (And THAT'S why my wife was giving me hints this morning...)
-Russ
Me
Congratulations and much happiness from an appreciative reader! {Jonathan Ezor}
May you have health, wealth and happiness in your life together.
Don't know you, never likely to, but what the
hell! Well done both of you..
Best regards
Mark
The Slashdot Effect is now more powerful than ever!
Peace to both of you.
Kaypro
Eddy.WriteLinux.Com
That's gotta be a record. Oh, yeah. My condolences. :)
BTW, has she trained you to keep the seat down, yet?
Congratulations :)
Jack Valenti and the MPAA are to technology as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone
Go Taco!
I wish both of you a long, happy life together :)
All about me
Now, if somehow the marriage cerimony could be performed on /. - that would be something :)
SEO Copywriter. Just Say ON
Even though 529 people replied to this already I figured what the hell...
:)
Congratulations and good luck to you both. I know the feeling I got engaged last week.
-TheRowk
You can change without improving, but you can't improve without changing. -Quote stolen from I don't remember who
Just wanted to say congratulations! I can honestly say for myself that after 12 years of marriage and 3 children that it just keeps getting better. Of course none of the kids are teenagers yet...........
CmdrTaco has just provided us with a new definition of "geek romance"! ;)
Forget the Goodyear Blimp...Slashdot her!
Next thing you know...right under "older stuff" will be "Geek Matchmaker"
I hope that your little slashdotters will be the mirror image of you and your bride!
First rule of holes; When in one, stop digging.
That poor girl. Kathleen Taco? It just doesn't have a nice ring to it.
Seems appropriate as my first /. commment to repy to this. Congratulations, old man.
Married 37 years and loving it.
Sorcerer: not just for breakfast anymore.
I just puked.
/. had been my brain child and I built it up to where it had the kind of traffic and following it has now, I would like to think at some point I would have realized it would belong more to the community that uses and supports it rather than my own personal playground.
I must be the most unromantic piece of shit I know. I just think this story is immature, or irresponsible, or something. And in a couple of different ways.
One: If
And Two: Don't get me too, wrong. I'm a happily married man of 6 years, with my second kid on the way. And I proposed on Valentines Day, too (on one knee, with just the two of us). It's just there are some ways in which the private and serious institution of marriage gets treated in such a public and hyped way these days that really burns me. Public spectacle proposals is one.
Another one is the cake cutting thing. Please don't start a cake fight and jam cake into each others face. That's no way to start a marriage.
jt
As a single nerd tear rolls down my eye, its nice to see other romantics also get what they want on valentine's day.
Mod point free since 2001
I hope you two have a wonderful future together and spawn many new instances! That had to be the most romantic way to propose and I'm certainly glad Kathleen said, "Yes." I'm sure it surprised her more than any of us... Again, congratulations!
-- Game Developers: Stop porting badly-textured games from crappy console systems!
Well done.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Welcome to the beginning of the most interesting part of your life!
You da man!
And an appropriate way to do it too.
I proposed in the middle of a fight (she said, "Yes.").
Congratulations! I wonder if Kathleen is going to keep her last name, though. Who would want to be called Kathleen Taco?
-- "Never call your girlfriend 'Butterball'. Not even once."
That he asked on /.
.....or that she answered in email?
I think I'd argue the latter.
...
Hey Rob -
:)"
:)
Re:
"Dork. You made me cry.
from http://www.funtrivia.com/Animals/Whales2.html:
"A whale's penis is called a dork."
We never knew
Congratulations and best wishes.
Frogs are primitive animals - so the occasional extra toe is not that unusual. But this is very unusual.
Good luck you two (and any iterations thereafter)!
Given enough hydrogen, just about anything is possible.
Done with style.
Cheers,
Ian
A nerd has done it again!! You bring great pride to our "nerd race". We wish you the best of luck and many years of D-Fragin' with oneanother.
Way to go! Congradulations! So are we going to see little Tacoletts? Best Wishes! Make sure to keep us updated :)
Check out my sysadmin blog!
Obviously, *you* married the wrong person.
Top O' the world, ma!
Shotgun Willie
Can we assume this whole proposal pst is also an open invitiation to the wedding for us all?
This is just soooo cute...
Best of luck to you both, from Sweden.
Opinions stated are mine and do not reflect those of the Illuminati
A man can never know true happiness until after he is married....and by then, it's far too late. Best Wishes to the future Mr. and Mrs. Taco.
Mmmmm... Instant Karma! Now with Tantric Marshmallows!
It wouldn't be that hard and it would be really sweet.
El Karma: excelente(principalmente la suma de moderación hecha a los comentarios de los usuarios)
Now your life will be move up to a whole new level. Marraige gets better every day - as long as you put as much positive energy into it as you can.
;-)
Plus it certainly doesn't hurt that your fiancee is a hottie
Congrats -
I am the vulture flying over your marriage
On a serious note... Please elope!
My Fiance' and I are planning a wedding as I'm reading this...
Planning a wedding is like writing assembly in binary...
Just remember: Life after highschool is just highschool with money, with gradation in 50 years...
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
Best... proposal... ever...
Really, this was cool. No, I'm NOT a karma whore!
Ok, so I "borrowed" the quote. Congradtulations! My wife and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary this past September and it gets better every year (no, my wife didn't make me post that - she doesn't read /.). Nothing makes life more enjoyable than finding someone to share everything with then have a family! Our two girls are such a blessing! In this age of 'things' and 'stuff' it is still the people that count the most. You two just have found the person to put at the top of each others list.
"If you are on fire you can just stop, drop, and roll. If you fall into Lava you are just dead." - my 5yr old daughter
Congratulations Taco
no sig error.
The best from my family to yours, Rob!
ah and BTW, you spooiled my "ahh humbug" valentine mood
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From one married guy to another (future) one. You'll have lots of challenges but will be forever thankful you finally asked.
Non illegemati carborundum est!
"Another one bites the dust..."
/., I think it took a couple of balls to humble yourself in front of all these egotistical jerks like that. And you even made her cry, how cute. ;)
(Speaking from years of experience)
Seriously, congratulations. Screw the wussies on here who prod you for doing it on
We expect pictures!
Congratulations!
/.
i never thought i would see the day that a marriage proposal would appear on
it's a crazy world!
Help! I've fallen in a karma hole and I can't get up!
In the space of an hour, Kathleen got:
1 proposal, 1 slashdotting, and +1 informative! What excitement!
I am the hub of Jack's digital lifestyle.
Very soppy, but cute!
All the best,
Anthony Staines.
-- Anthony Staines
that is so sweet. I was wondering if something like this would happen today ... cute!
sulli
RTFJ.
I assume there'll be a streaming webcam covering the ceremony? It'd be the Right Thing to do. See if VA Linux has any servers left over: you're gonna need a bunch of 'em!
/. people can be sometimes...
One recommendation, though: no polls on the website. Either that or one humongous database to store all the replies to, "If anyone knows any reason why these two...". *sigh* You know how
:)
When I proposed in the fall, the first thing my fiance did was try to set a date. I was unprepared for this; in my mind I was getting engaged, it had never crossed my mind that I was going to be planning a wedding that soon!
So when is the date!?! Will the guests all be wearing name tags bearing their logins like "CowboyNeal"?
Congrats Taco; fondest hopes for many happy years together.
/. spelling/grammar is bad now, just wait a few years until a bunch of little Tacos (taquitos?) are helping out with the site editing chores...
One concern: if everyone thinks the
Again, best to you both and happy V-day.
- Brandon
First, my hearty congrats to both Taco and Ms. Fent! Best wishes in your coming journey.
Second, my personal thanks for the foolish grin which seems to have settled on my visage this morning.
Finally, I felt I needed to share what might be a shocked enlightenment. Up until today, I had considered Slashdot the geek voyeurs' food court, the space into which so many posters stare, grasping for the newest post, story, or poll: reacting to or against, but never personally affecting.
But today, here, something actually happened. Not reported, not discussed, but someone actually created tangible change in the flesh-and-bone world on these pages. And our reaction, our interaction, seems - to me at least - more than a collection of pithy retorts and conspiracy theories.
You might actually have spawned a community. My congratulations, and my thanks.
Type10
I think we should all congradulate Rob on the fact that he FINALLY will lose his virginity!
hehe...
Congrats on the whole marriage thing too!
Good going!
Now you get to COMMAND-HER-TACO.
(at least thats whay you think!)
Celebrate the ruthless slaughter of 14 gangsters! the heart pumps blood and blood is red and red is the color of romance and roses are usually red and the Massacre shed a lot of blood!
GO CAPONE!
Wonderfully done. Congratulations on your engagement. So when can we expect to see EnsignTaco's first post?
144l. ph34r my 133t l3g4l 5k1lz!
I wish the best for the two of you. Very nice to read a positive post. I actually smiled before noon today :-)
Certainly a unique way to propose....
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Congratulations, both of you!
/. could ever get slashodtted, I guess, now is the time ;) Happy Valentine's day!
Ppl: For Kathleen Fent's views on the matter, check out http://www.fent.net/index.html
if you havent already
If
Taking a dive in to the ever increasing sea of well wishers.
Congratulations!!
Zaphb
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trogger.net
+1 Sweet
+1 Awwwwww
+1 Cute
-1 Corny
-1 Sappy
I just feel so silly now. I guess I'll go console myself over at 2cpu.com, and lust after another mobo. It's the appropriate geek thing to do in this kind of situation, lose yourself in technology.
"Plotchnik? Where Plotchnick?"
"Fifty watts per channel, babycakes."
And here is a link to a picture of the to-be bride :)
Kathleen Fent
More information is available over at: Fent.NET
And the winner is: CmdrDorko!!!
Congrats you two.. :)
It's geeks like you and Carmack that give a single nerd, such as myself, some hope that I will a female to cohabitate with. I am going to make a resolution to myself this Valentine's day, to 'find' that special someone ... right after I finish Metal Gear Solid 2
Are you two going to set up your wedding gift registry at Fry's? Do they sell Lego there?
Nonetheless, congrats to both of you.
Now go make little Linux users :)
Congrats!!
Now the really tough question, does ThinkGeek do wedding registries?
I'm out of my mind right now, but feel free to leave a message.....
This article/proposal is one of the coolest things I've seen on the web in a very long time.
A million points to Gryffindor!
Bold and daring, you get the Doritos!
/usr/local/waycool is full.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of marriage proposals...
"You've got my axe...and my bow...and my something borrowed..and MY something blue!"
First Pos^H^H^Hroposal!
But seriously, congratulations! Don't forget to try the chicken, I'll be here all week.
Congratulations to the bost of you - and know that the odds are with you as geek marriages have far greater odds of surviving than civilians'.
This is kinda like the first MS antitrust article or the WTC article - I just had to get in for posterity.
-Jon
I'm sorry, but "token ring" just made me wet my pants. LMAO!
Congratulations. We wish you both happiness.
I was going to post: "Imagine ... now they can start their own little beowulf cluster".
Congrats!
Tuus crepidae innexilis sunt.
a beowulf cluster of little Robs!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Did he really write "hazah", who talks like that!
Congrats!!!!! Great idea!
..CmdrTaco is now PrivTaco?
Congrats..
1. You are imposing your personal matters onto a large amount of people who have nothing to do with it.
..."
2. By making this marriage request public before a large amount of people you put a lot of emotional pressure onto HER. Of course everyone expects and hopes that she will answer yes. But I think a real good decision should be taken without this big emotional NOISE. This doesn't make the decision better, just worse.
3. Maybe you where just not strong enough to ask it to her privately...
Concluding I think you acted on a rather childish and immature way. If my girlfriend would do that to me we would have a serious conversation after that. And I for sure would answer NO, for the moment. She probably would act the same way...
Maybe you just did it to be able to say in some years from now:" remember when I asked you in marriage
But if you want to make a memorable request there are certainly better ways to do it...
I'm disappointed for the slashdot editors to let that pass...
Just my 0.5 $
Taco, can I have your jerk lube?
Dragging people kicking and screaming into reality since 1996.
And here is a link to a picture of the to-be bride :)
Kathleen Fent
More information is available over at: Fent.NET
where's the (token) ring???
This, however, is
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You sure got a purty mouth...
PSNo, I am NOT an anonymous coward! Just too lazy to register for this one post.
I can just see it now. A Lan party with 100+ geek guys sitting around downloading pr0n....
....and a live webcam feed to a local strip club...
Congratulations you damn UBER geeks!
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;)
^
(standing O...)
I guess this means she'll have to change her slashdot uid, huh?
Congratulations, Rob and Kathleen! Best wishes to you both.
Constitutionally Correct
Don't do it man you're still young!
JK Congrats to you both. BTW is this a first for slashdot?
The Lunatick, Carpe Corpus!
Grats, ya fraud! ;)
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
And here is a link to a picture of the to-be bride :)
Kathleen Fent
More information is available over at: Fent.NET
Thats right...Come on show some creativity. At least be on one knee for something like this. I mean damn not even there to see her face?
You people are the reason we have the ability and fun of making fun of the NERDS!!! Take off your Coke Bottle glasses, put away the pocket protector, move AWAY FORM THE MOUSE, and get out there and enjoy life.
Congratulations! May you have a happy life together.
May you and Kathleen have a long and neat venture.
And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make
Okay, so this isn't the MOST geeky thing to do by a long shot, but it worked! I bought a copy of the movie Pay It Forward, which my girlfriend and I saw on our very first date. Then, at an appropriate time during the opening credits, I recorded my proposal (complete with bent knee and ring). I convinced her we should rent that movie and watch it, so I went to Hastings and got it, then sneakily swapped the tapes! She was in her PJs eating chicken soup (she was kind of sick that day) when I came on the video. Next to her on the couch, I knelt down and proposed (saying the same words I had said on the tape). It was great :)
Oh, yeah, and at the end of the tape I put some "outtakes!" ;-)
Kathleen and Rob, best of luck to both of you. Especially Kathleen
To open source, Rob, not to each other. Y'see, you can only demonstrate your commitment, I think, to the open source development model by opening up the child-rearing policies. All decisions of parenting shall from now on be decided in polls. Let's bring these kids up to worship cowboyneal.
:)
Oh, and Rob, remember; kids have no ctrl, no alt, and no delete. Best of luck
Blearf. Blearf, I say.
Geeks are hookin' up left and right over at the Geek Culture Forums. (no login needed)
i love your proposal idea. all the best to you.
Oh you guys , that was cool Congratulations, all the best for the future what linux distributions will be on your wedding list? Have a great life together.
The big question awaits... does she get your root password?
Just wanted to congratulate the both of you.
Enough said.
Congratulations Cmdr and Mrs. Taco. You'll have to let us know when the first burrito comes along.
I've used some generator to create a simple poll, hoping that would end the replies asking for a poll. (I know, wishfull thinking) it's here: http://home01.wxs.nl/~toth0002/poll.html
Kathleen
sorry commander, the public wanted to know...
congrats!!!
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Excellent and classy way to do it...
BTW kiss your sex life goodbye
Married 8 years....
Never by hatred has hatred been appeased, only by kindness - the Buddha
Informative? Of course. Insightful? Absolutely. But Troll? Overrated! That's blasphemy! I demand, demand that those moderators have their privliges revoked!
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Just my congrats.
Very cute way of doing it on this valentines.
...you do know you're going to karma hell for that, don't you?
You're using her as bait, Master!
'nuff said.
Ryosen
One man's "Troll, +1" is another man's "Insightful, +1".
Congrats to both of you!
Now you face 2 questions harder than the proposal:
1. Does think geek to wedding registries?
2. When you move in togethor, the determining factor in choosing a place will be: does it have enough power outlets? and what amperage are the breakers set at?
Congrats again!
I'm out of my mind right now, but feel free to leave a message.....
A friend of mine proposed & married in Ultima Online. Actually, they married in UO first, then in real life. (Assuming UO isn't real life.)
There is absolutely no reason to panic.
After lurking for many years, I've finally seen a post worthy of making a comment on.
Congratulations.
Very touching, indeed :)
... Well, this dispells the rumor that you're gay!
/. history, so I'm sure we'll be visiting this post sometime in the future.
Seriously though, congratulations to you both. You've also created yet another classic moment in
Now, go make some mad lovin'!
Skiers and Riders -- http://www.snowjournal.com
because several songs are delightful (Tara's song had me laughing out loud, particularly at what was going on off-camera, and Xander and Anya's duet of the "about to be married"). I'm new to Buffy, but I've now seen all of Seasons 1, 5 and (to date) 6 and am watching the reruns. The musical episode is, on that list, the third best to date in my view. YMMV.
Slashdot sinks to new editorial lows. I'm outa here.
does that pass as news these days? :(
Who would have guessed, after all these years, that Fermat's trick would still work in 2002? That dude was seriously ahead of his time.
In no event unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing will the husband and wife, or any other party who may modify and/or attempt to modify the marriage as permitted by law, be liable to you for damages, including any general, special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use the marriage (including but not limited to loss of life or life being rendered inaccurate or losses sustained by you or third parties or a failure of the marriage to operate with any other programs), even if such holder or other party has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
So that's what the Alter Relationship buttons are all about!
--
(if you're still looking for the point, it was back there, in the post. </sig>)
Congrats Taco and Kathleen!
"The quality of life is determined by its activites."--Aristotle
And who says geeks don't know how to be romantic! Congrats Taco & Kathleen! Bill
Best of luck to you both!
In case of fire, do not use elevator. Use water!
...did he get her a token ring?
Really, there's not a mention of a ring, but I don't think we should really count that out. Taco's geekness isn't so much that he's THAT disconneted from reality.
"liberty and justice for all those who can afford it"
congrats sir!
-- rfs
Congrats and good luck.
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
Just don't name any of children "Del".
If she divorces you, will she get half your karma?
So I'm redundant, this time I think I can be forgiven...
:)
Congratulations to you both. Marriage is a lot of fun, and a lot of work, and it can be really terrific. Don't forget to have fun.
Good luck. Oh, and after the ceremony, you should invite us all to your reception, millionaire-man
Congratulations!!! In the spirit of all of this, here's our Birthday/Proposal Story too.
..Jeff Keegan
seven syllables explain TiVo: kee gan dot org slash ti vo
I was almost done sulking in my own self-pitty when you stuck it in my face. I had promised myself, that if any annoying cute cuddly couples got in my way today and rubbed in how crap my crap life is, i would strangle one of them (probably the guy). This troll/flame has made me feel better. So thankyou slashdot (PS. Please have it in your heart not to mod me down :)
This comment does not represent the views or opinions of the user.
Imagine starting a web site and building it up to be incredibly popular - taking almost 5 years - just to propose to your girlfriend. Now that's love.
I'm sure you're not reading down this far, but congrats Rob and Kathleen. Here's wishing you a long and happy life together. And I agree with an earlier poster, Rob - you BETTER post pics of the wedding. ;-)
Again, congrats! That was so cool. ^_^
-Kasreyn
Kasreyn: Cheerfully playing the part of Devil's Advocate to hairtrigger
Wow. At the risk of being entirely superficial, Kathleen is a very attractive woman. And from the look of her site, a woman of wit and sagacity.
The other picutes of Ms. Fent also hint that she is beautiful.
Good luck to you both!
I never met either of you before but I want to say congrats! Marriage is a great thing and I hope the best for you both. You will be in my prayers :-).
This is the highest concentration of 'Funny' modded comments I've ever seen.
Am I Wrong?
...in proposing to everyone called Kathleen Fent :)
Best of luck, may your children wear very thick spectacles!
It is worth finding my darned password to give you a somewhat more personal Congrats!. Whatta guy!
Probably real, according to http://www.fent.net/archive/troll.html :
"... will NEVER post on Slashdot" - so much for that, eh?
(I'm losing the first moderation points I've ever had by posting here, but it should be worth it...)
Warm wishes and best of luck to you Rob and Kathleen!
Sincerely, Brian
This is quite a way to show your love. I hope things work out for the best. It is small acts like this that make living bearable sometimes. I hope there are more people willing to put the balls on the line like you did CmdrTaco.
--If I said something interesting it probably wasn't correct
KthlnTaco?
You are not the customer.
Geek romance is so cool.
/. really cheered me up.
:) Cara
I'm having a crummy V-day this year, and seeing this proposal on
I wish you lifelong love and happiness!
Cara Hart chart@eNOSPAMfurn.com Systems Administrator eFurn.com, LLC. and ARITEK Systems, Inc.
Taco, you rule. Congratulations to you both!!! Now I have to go see if I can find a rose in a 30 mile radius so my g.f. doesn't think i forgot ;)
Congrats....
Do all 250,000 of us have to reply?
Now there's the tyop we've been waiting for!
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Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 9.3).
Now that the wedding was announced using the ubergeek way, will the show also be broadcast on the Internet with webcams ? :)
Remember Kathleen, 'never ask a geek why, just nod slowly and back away.'
Congratulations, Rob.
Don Negro
Perl 6 will give you the big knob. -- Larry Wall
Congrats Taco! May your marriage be happier than mine was!
Well, I'm male and 40, and received 6 marriage proposals. I accepted numbers 3 and 6, and now have two restraining orders against 6. Don't think that women can't propose, or that they can't do things worthy of restraining orders.
But I sincerely hope that Kathleen and El Roberto have each day together better than the day before. Good luck to you both.
Congratulations!!! In the spirit of all of this, here's our Birthday/Proposal Story too.
..Jeff Keegan
seven syllables explain TiVo: kee gan dot org slash ti vo
public proposals should be outlawed..
stay outta trouble you crazy kids...
So...where's the wedding?
Slashdot - News for Herds. Stuff that Splatters.
Taco, just wanted to say congrats with the rest of the nameless mass who appreciates the work you all do over there!
today is spelling optional day.
Yeah, yeah, "it's so cute I proposed on my Web site, what a geek am I." Can't you even manage to propose in person?
Congratulations to you both, and good luck and happiness for many years to come.
Rhapsody in Numbers
Congrats my man! best wishes to yee
This must be a first or something. Maybe you can have your wedding vows in the Ask Slashdot section.
Ask Slashdot:
minister writes: "Do you take Kathleen to be your lawfully wedded wife?"
View 560 of 1267 replies.
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He's getting married, so his chances of ever having a life are pretty much shot to hell now.
Someone should renew fent.net... it expires on Saturday...
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I guess it's only a matter of time before we've got little Tacquitos running around here, eh?
Ok, but NOTICE, that this article has over 700 comments, whereas the one's below it top off near 100-200. At least we are all passionate (in a good or a bad way) about a day about passion!
AND NICE QUOTE!!!
People who are against human cloning must be bitter they are not good enough to be cloned.
Congratulations and may you have many happy and geeky years together!!
Best wishes to you two..
Procrastinators, Unite Tomorrow!!
Does she run Linux?
Good to see the Ueber Geek ride in on his pure white packets, in a shiney Firewall and lay it down before us all.
hope your marrage has an infinite uptime.
I have now lost all respect for slashdot. I will no longer visit this site. I hope you get a divorce!
that they'll be bringing a webcam on their honeymoon?
___
It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
well done..!
Dev elpizw tipota, dev phoboumai tipota eimai lephteros http://euclidian.org
It's official! /. has been /.ed with LOVE !!!
Congratulations! Marriage is a blessing not a curse, at least for men. Aren't we lucky guys?
Congrats to both of you.
/. for quite some time now and I thought that this was a subject I should really reply to.
;)
/. ? lack of inspiration ?
I have been reading
Some times being married is like running a M$ network, you just have to go with the flow and surrender to it.
(I got >5 years M$ and 13 months marriage experience)
Let's see if this story makes it to The Screensavers. I think they rip a lot of their stories from
...probably gonna be buried in a mountain of comments, but for what it's worth, congrats Rob... you certainly are a lucky guy... you actually got a girl :)
...now teach the rest of us geeks how it's done!
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
A 250,000 geek bukkake! Closest we'll get to a p2p sharing, right?
Urg, I've just pictured that. I think I'm going to be sick. It's a shame that AC doesn't protect your own brain from the wierd images that appear at times like this.
First, congrats.. Marriage rocks. Second, some words of advice given to me before I was married. "Happy Wife, Happy Life" Learn it, live it, love it.
What's my Karma Mr. Burns? "Excellent"
I was expecting some typical geek/nerd related news. Congrats on the wedding.
/. effect.
Now since you have stolen a news slot from my daily reading, I'm expecting to now see an update to this when the wedding happens, and a website with webcam so it can feel the
...when I think about how my wife would just not 'get' how romantic this is. She is *so* non-geek..
All the best in the world to you and your fiancee.
Responsibility is the punishment for compentenc
Just to add to the many thousands you've already recieved! :)
Just you're average nitpicker.
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Not only that, Wife 1.0 installs itself such that it is always launched at system initialization where it can monitor all other system activity. He's finding that some applications such as PokerNight 10.3, BeerBash 2.5, PubNight 7.0, and Excuses 5.0 are no longer able to run in the system at all, crashing the system when selected (even though they always worked fine before).
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Some features he'd like to see in the upcoming wife 2.0.
A "Don't remind me again" button
Minimize button
An install shield feature that allows Wife 2.0 be installed with the option to uninstall at anytime without the loss of cache and other system resources.
An option to run the network driver in promiscuous mode which would allow the systems hardware probe feature to be much more useful.
I myself decided to avoid all of the headaches associated with Wife 1.0 by sticking with Girlfriend 2.0. Even here, however, I found many problems.
Apparently you cannot install Girlfriend 2.0 on top of Girlfriend 1.0. You must uninstall Girlfriend 1.0 first. Other users say this is a long standing bug which I should have been aware of. Apparently the versions of Girlfriend have conflicts over shared use of the I/O port. You think they would have fixed such a stupid bug by now. To make matters worse, The uninstall program for Girlfriend 1.0 doesn't work very well leaving undesirable traces of the application in the system.
Another thing that sucks -- all versions of Girlfriend continually popup little annoying messages about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0
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Wife 1.0 has an undocumented bug. If you try to install Mistress 1.1 before uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files before doing the uninstall itself. Then Mistress 1.1 will refuse to install, claiming insufficient resources.
BUG WORK-AROUNDS
To avoid the above bug, try installing Mistress 1.1 on a different system and never run any file transfer applications such as Laplink 6.0. Also, beware of similar shareware applications that have been known to carry viruses that may affect Wife 1.0.
Another solution would be to run Mistress 1.0 via a UseNet provider under an anonymous name. Here again, beware of the viruses which can accidently be downloaded from the UseNet.
UPGRADE VERSION
Although advertised as being Plug'n'Play, installing the Upgrade version of Wife 1.0 results in several of the better features of Girlfriend 1.0 refusing to continue working. The supposed compatibility with Fast-Car 3.6 & Ski Holiday 6.2 is also flawed, and launching these applications results in strange noises and error messages.
Wife 1.0 also appears to be totally incompatible with all previous versions of BEST MATE, and some users have reported that continued use of BEST MATE can lead to unwanted sharing of resources and I/O ports unless the System Agent is installed as a background task.
SUMMARY
It appears that Girlfriend 1.0 is still one of the best products on the market, especially just after installation. It remains relatively reliable and easy on system resources. The timeout feature of Girlfriend is the major problem, and in severe cases can force the user to upgrade to Wife 1.0 with dire consequences on system health.
Dear patron:
This is a very common problem men complain about but is mostly due to a primary misconception. Many people upgrade from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0 with the idea that Wife 1.0 is merely a UTILITIES & ENTERTAINMENT program.Wife 1.0 is an OPERATING SYSTEM and designed by its creator to run everything.
It is unlikely that you would be able to purge Wife 1.0 and still convert back to Girlfriend 7.0. Hidden operating files within your system would cause Girlfriend 7.0 to emulate Wife 1.0 so that, in the end, nothing would be gained. It is impossible to un-install, delete, or purge the program files from the system once installed. You cannot go back to Girlfriend 7.0 because Wife 1.0 is not designed to do this.
Some have tried to install Girlfriend 8.0 or Wife 2.0 but end up with more problems than with the original system. Look in your manual under "Warnings-Alimony/Child Support". I recommend that you keep Wife 1.0 and just deal with the situation.
Having Wife 1.0 installed myself, I might also suggest you read the entire section regarding General Partnership Faults (GPFs). You must assume all responsibility for faults and problems that might occur,regardless of their actual cause. The best course of action will be to enter the command C:\APOLOGIZE. In any case, avoid excessive use of the Esc key because -- ultimately-you will have to give the APOLOGIZE command before the operating system will return to normal. The system will run smoothly as long as you take the blame for all the GPFs.
Wife 1.0 is a great program, but very high maintenance. Consider buying additional software to improve the performance of Wife 1.0. I recommend Flowers 2.1 and Chocolates 5.0. Do not, under any circumstances, install Secretary With Short Skirt 3.3. This is not a supported application for Wife 1.0 and is likely to cause irreversible damage to the operating system.
Best of luck,
Tech Support.
Congratulations :) A really well received /. story
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
Happy Valentines too all and a very special one to TACO. Congratulations to the both of you!
Rob,
/.er in the world will be replying to this story, I thought I'd jump on with some advice (as a married nerd, I'm qualified).
/. ref into this. Let the other one say what is up with them before you mark them as a troll.
/. posters.
Seeing as every
1. Always listen to each her. Nothing will get you into the doghouse faster than her thinking you are not listening when she thinks she has something important to say.
2. WIRELESS! Yes, good old 802.11b. It allows you to be on the couch doing nerdly things, while you are in the same room with her. No more lost in your home office for hours and hours every night. This is definitely one of the best technologies for a married couple.
3. Respect each other. It sounds so simple, but a lot of couples seem to lose that over the years. They start doing dumb things like rolling their eyes when the other speaks. Lack of respect for your mate has destroyed more couples than anything.
4. Respect each other. Am I repeating myself? Well, yes, because it is so important. Just let the other person be themselves, and the small stuff will take care of itself.
5. Don't lose yourself! That sounds anti-love, but it's not. Make concessions, but don't change yourself. You are who she fell in _love_ with. Of course, you will grow, and change, but your soul will remain.
6. Laugh with her. You should be marrying your best friend. If she is not, you are doing this too soon (said that one a little late, didn't I). It is the friendship that carries you through life together. You both will have times when all you need is a friend, and being there like that for each other is critical.
7. Don't mod each other. Ok, I had to get a
8. Just SAY IT. When something is up, take the risk, and just SAY IT. Don't hem and haw, and let it build up. The friendship and respect you build will allow you to trust in the ability to just say what is on your mind. It feels so much better when it's out in the open, whatever it is.
9. Men are from mars, women are from venus. I know this to be true. Get the book on CD, and listen to it in your car. Then dispose of it like you would pr0n. Descreatly. Never let anyone know you listened to it (because they will think you are a f4g. However, there actually are some good tools and concepts in the book. It teaches you not to try and solve her problems, but when to just listen.
10. Don't listen to
Spackler
So where are you registered? Thinkgeek?
Mechanik
Congratulations to both of you!
So, we're all invited to the wedding, right I'm allergic to shellfish, if that helps with organising the catering.
Congratulations and all that, but now I'm going home to pull the network cable out of the back of my girlfriends machine until this story drops off the front page. ;-p
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
I'm seeing close to 800 posts (and probably more coming) and then I see the other stories with a low 200. With the 800 posts, I also see so many moderation points thrown into this story...
It's all about you now isn't it?!
Will we be seeing child processes anytime soon?
Kathleen, just get his root password, then all the cooking and cleaning will magically be done.
GO TACO
If people can connect to one another even the smallest of voices will grow loud.
--Serial Experiments Lain
congratulations to both CmdrTaco and Kathleen. Now you can spawn all kinds of child-processes! whooohoo!
"If I wanted your input on my pet project, I'd stick my hand up your ass and use you like a sock-puppet." - Muse
Major CONGRATULATIONS to you....(do hope it works out)
I am one of those rare pro-marriage types who thinks that such a union with the right person is one of the most beautiful gifts God gave us in this life.
Anyways, be blessed....
- Jason
PS - But I did think the above was quite funny and appropriate since this was an online proposal. And people were making comments about proprietary and open source marriages.
I just hope my wife doesn't read this. I wonder if this will become a trend?
You should plan the wedding around a Lan party to be different you might even make it on "Real TV" (bullshit show) but, either way congrats
So when you gonna meet her, Rob? (j/k) Congratulations. :o)
- adam
Geek's in love, ain't it sweet?
http://chrismetcalf.net
It happens. One day you find you have someone worth asking, and then you do it. You've asked and the good answer has been given. Be happy, and remember that the romance does not end witht he vows, it only gets better and better.
There may be those who poo-poo this for being on
Take care.
-- James Dornan
-- Prepared at the direction of, or to be sent to Legal Counsel, in anticipation of litigation. Attorney Client Pri
One ring to bind them?
Will she be open source?
She should marry CowboyNeal!
Hey, I submitted this a week ago!
And, of course, best of all:
Taco's bride naked and petrified (well, almost).
But, man, did he have it coming or what?! Anyway, congratulations to you both!
lskfdglkjsfkjslfdgafdljkslkfglksjfdlkgjslfdgsfdg hl kjdlgkhjldkgjhldkjglhkdjghlkjdglhkjdlkhgjdljhldkdk hglkdjhkdjlhgkjdhgdhg (too few characters per line..)
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" - Derek Bok
A sucker for the geeky way of doing things? Dang, I need to find someone like that =)
Actually, I'm pretty lucky. My girlfriend is kind of a computer fiend and understands my addiction =)
..does what we have mean nothing to you? And who is this, this.. Kathleen? |-;
Congrats, you've now spawned a permanent process.
And I'm actually surprised at the maturity of the posts I've read so far!
I already got my geek. Good luck with yours!
All the best to you!
--Raz (a geekess)
As one of your earliest users (note user #) I offer a hearty congratulations. You couldn't have proposed in a more interesting way.
Good luck and best wishes for the future.
You'll be even happier once you have a Taco Jr!!
.
Ummm, Jon, aren't you supposed to be dead...? - Otter(3800)
--An anonymous male reader
Congrats, man. Maybe your bride-to-be's website will un-slashdot by tonight (yeah, riiiight).
"Settle down, Beavis. We've got an experiment to do."
I like everyone else, would like to say congratulations, and I hope you have a very happy future together...
what I want to know is...
is there going to be a webcam at the wedding?
congrats to you both...
*** I had a
May all your ups and downs be between the sheets!
Of course, when I submitted this story a week ago, it was rejected. Fools. :)
Just kidding. Great way to get the job done!
Posted from the wireless couch.
May you both be very very happy..... or at least tell each other youa re!
Mazal tov to both of you.
I should probably mod my own comment as redundant because it's already been said, but conrats to Taco & Kathleen :)
--
www.nitemarecafe.com
its interesting to see how many comments this got, and how quickly. it seems ./'er nerds care more about love than we thought.
The masses are the crack whores of religion.
When I saw this I thought, man people on slashdot would get a kick out of this, I should submit it!
Best of luck to the both of you.
mebbe we can /. /.
/. had better response times than today...
Maybe we did it. Or is it just me? Even on Sep 11
By the way, how much of a hit will my Karma take if I mod up my own post to make sure you see this?
Laws affecting technology will always be bad until enough techies become lawyers.
I don't care how redundant this post may be.. it's worth losing karma!
:P Best of everything to you both!
Congratulations, Rob and Kathleen !!!
I believe slashdot has just slashdotted itself on this one
...and much STYLE. Be happy! It's your duty.
Rien n'est plus beau que le creux du 0.
Sweeeeet! I was married 5 years ago today. Good luck and Congratz!
-Xen
like here in France you would just happily live in sin, have children, raise them, hack...
Marriage stinks (I have been) living together forever rocks!
realkiwi
Commandress Fent?
Captain Taco ('cause you know she'll be giving the orders)
Or will we steer clear of the military/culinary naming conventions?
Eloi are stupid, throw morlocks at them!
I'm afraid we can't make any exceptions. Please check your dual athlon at the door on the way out.
Congratulations!
Are we all invited to the batchelor party?
Information wants to be beer.
Good luck to the both of you.
bug.gd: error search engine. Humanity working together to solve all errors.
So rather than cigars do we get karma handouts?
forget this hallmark holiday. forget the "be mine" hearts that taste like sugared chalk. forget the chocolate that will be sold at 75% off tomorrow. this is modern romance.
(yes. i posted this as an entry on my own site, complete with linkback.)
congratulations kids.
"Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad."
-- Aldous Huxley
Good for you. I should be joining you in the institution of matrimony within 3 to 6 months. That is once my divorce is final.
--
If I actually could spell I'd have spelled it right in the first place.
Hmm, the family might consist of CmdrTaco, WifeyTaco, BabyTaco (or a 10 pack), and at dinner time they could ring the TacoBell.
GeneralKael -- Slacker Extraordinaire
Best to you both!
Just married myself (Nov 2001)
Hope yours is as happy as mine is!
W. Sandman III
I mean, 800+ comments on a marriage proposal located in a site aimed at unix nrrds ... and not even one pun about linking or ld(1) ?!?
:-) Now you get to discover what a logistical nightmare something as conceptually simple as wanting to be together forever can turn into. Have I mentioned that I hate caterers, photographers, and members of the clergy? If you find yourselves getting stressed out, just take a step back mentally and remind yourselves that the day is all about the lasting emotional intangibles, not what kind of flowers are on the reception tables...
Kidding aside, congratulations to the future Mr. & Mrs. Taco.
News for Geeks in Austin, TX
C'mon, lets get quarter of a million congrats too!
When I asked my geek girlfriend (who occassionally goes by the hacker alias Kiesa) to marry me two months ago, I didn't use Slashdot, or even my webpage; just our Visors. (These would be PalmOS units built by Handspring.) We were driving east on I-84 east of Portland (Oregon) and I innocently suggested we stop by Multnomah Falls. Because it's a neat place, and we had a little extra time, we stopped. As we got out of the car, I covertly grabbed her Visor and stuffed it in my pocket next to mine. We hiked to the top of the waterfall, overlooking the Columbia River, and I broke out my Visor and scribbled "Kiesa - I love you and I want to share the rest of my life with you. Will you marry me? - Jaeger". I handed her unit to her and beamed the memo. She read it and I repeated my query verbally. She pulled out her stylus and started writing something. Even though I was fairly certian she would say yes, waiting for her to respond was still the longest fifteen seconds of my life.
She said yes. I was happy.
way to go.
:)
Now how long before we get to see little taco's running around
And what took you so long? Me, I'm 31, and have been married for 10 years :)
Free as in "the Truth shall set you..."
Congratulations to you both! :)
M
Wired has already posted an article about this. I wonder if it will make the NY Times? ;)
Could TacoToddlers be on the horizon?
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
GeneralEmergency
From one married bloke to a soon-to-be, you are in for one hell of a ride, but it will be worth every minute. Just remember the two words that will become your best friends:
Yes Dear
:)
Been married 28 years - not the worst thing in the world...
The only thing cooler than this, would have been to make it a Slashdot Poll...
But it would really suck if she decided to marry CowboyNeal.
Congratulations, man. Welcome to the ranks!
Both of you, best of wishes.
Ho humm, he ho, off to the wedding we go...*sings a little ditty*
*mobbed by millions with gags and cones-of-silence*
In July O7, I got a mac pro. There's no punchline. Just endless joy and wonder.
Here's hoping your future continues to be bright for years to come!!
And kudos on the proposal itself.
Welcome to the net of 1000 lies. Upgrades are scheduled soon that should bring us to the 10,000 lies mark.
What else is there to say? Cool... Very Cool... Even Steph was impressed! :)
MOO;IANAL.
There used to be a picture linked here.
Well, I think it takes a lot of guts to do what you think, which means that you really do love her. Good luck to both of you!
Congratulations, Taco - it takes a lot of guts to preempt April Fool's day by two months.
Njord's girlfriend, to Njord: "[censored]" [Slap!]
Njord to girlfriend: "Ouch! What? It's who's day?"
True story.
This is late -busy with work- but hey man, I wish
you a happy exciting life.
dont get the usual duplicate post from Timothy, we should be ok... ;)
Congrats to the lucky couple.
i just tried making that that link http://www.fent.net/graphics/cleavagesm.jpg into: http://www.fent.net/graphics/cleavagelg.jpg following standard web designer naiming conventions ive used for years, but alas, it did not make the picture nor the cleavage bigger :(
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
End story! Congraturation, a winner is you!
Inquiring minds wand to know - since the proposal was online, will the wedding be webcast? :)
Hope you two will continue to very happy together!
Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do.
Best of luck to the both of you from the Netherlands......damn this is better than to see the wedding of our crown prince......;-)
Imagine a Beowolf Cluster of THESE!!!
On getting accepted!
If this alternative seen this day on Freshmeat is any indication (one of the more depressing license agreements you'll read), then your marital happiness will be inversely related to your productivity as a programmer.
"Provided by the management for your protection."
-nt = No Text
Anonymous Coward
St. Louis, MO
Congratulations!
Congratulations.
Congratulations, Commander Taco,
I wish you and your bride many many years of happiness and joy and lots of little tacettes running around the house.
Mike Kenny
SDMI: Finally! Music that won't rip or burn! Brought to you by the fine folks at RIAA.
This is really going to make headlines tommorow..
:-)
/. story ever?
The first Slashdot story that is no aggrageted..
Congratz!
(is this going to be the highest commented
I hope so)
I thought I'd join the masses (and give up my ability to mod this!) and say congratulations, Rob! Best of luck and happiness to you both for, well, the rest of your lives.
;)
So, are we all invited to the wedding? I mean, we were here for the proposal, it's only appropriate to invite us!
(Remember, the more people you invite, the more gifts you'll get.)
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww....
:-)
I want a boyfriend who will do this for me, too!
We'll now refer to Rob by his Native American name - "Dead Man Walking".
Congrats Rob! Are you planning a webcast? Is it going to be in Tuliptown?
And your best man is probably gonna want a list of strippers in the area:
http://yp.yahoo.com/py/ypResults.py?stp=y&stx=2
----- obSig
So to speak.
I used to be a cynic, then I got disillusioned with it.
Yeah, mushy as hell.. but if you were my bf i'd be crying too but that is way more thoughtful than anything i've seen in my high school today so far. we need more men like that! must be a geek thing :)
see sig. see sig run. run sig run.
I hope she doesn't back out when you go to sign the marriage license and she has to agree to a name change to Lt. Taco :)
Congrats!
Hey, congrats to both of you!
What a great way to propose!
Many years of happiness to you!
He proposed to her on Valentine's Day! I wonder if he knows, because that's really wierd!
Have fun, lots of babies, and lots more fun.
Alright now I can tell my kids that I saw the CmdrTaco propose to his women on slashdot. I know everything I'd like to say has already been said, so congrats and best wishes Malda.
can't sleep slashdot will eat me
Cool proposal CmdrTaco, and hopefully her web sever won't be completely slashdotted. :)
Congrats and beware of the D^4 questions ("Honey, do I look fat in this?")
Now, who's responsible for the bachelor party, are ALL of us invited, and is it possible to have beer distributed over a WAN?
Well, that was 1998, maybe that has changed by now.
Congrats from me as well!
my wife would have said no if I did it the way you did. So I had to do it in public..on my knee..and she still said no. She finally caved in after a while.
Once again...congrats!
Congratulations Rob & Kathleen.
Carbon based humanoid in training.
<HTML>
<BODY>
<HEAD>Will You?</HEAD>
<FORM ACTION="//wedding.forever.org/comments.pl" METHOD="WED">
<P>Do you <put name here>?</P>
<INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="yes" VALUE="1">
<INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="no" VALUE="0">
Do you <put other name here>?
<INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="yes1" VALUE="1">
<INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="no1" VALUE="0">
</FORM>
If yes and yes1
Then
<P>By the power vested in me by the W3C I now pronounce you husband and wife.
<FORM ACTION="//minister-justice-other.sappy.org/commen
Kiss each other
# notice only one set of choices after WED METHOD executed
<INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="yes2" VALUE="1">
<INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="no2" VALUE="0">
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Enjoy! And major congrats!!! Or is that commander congrats?!?
If Darwin was right, you'd be dead by now.
Go Taco!
Taco, taco, taco!
...must obey the Taco man...
heheh...
You think he could love someone who's NOT a Slashdot reader?
s,"Valentines Day","Black Thursday",
From the bottom of my cold lead filled heart...
Congrats... Welcome to the first day, of the rest of your life... marriage.. now that brings back memories.
A poem for you and yours...
Hearts and Roses and Kisses galore
What the hell is all that shit for?
People get mushy and start acting queer
It is definately the most annoying day of the year
This day needs to get the hell over with and pass
Before I shove a dozen roses up Cupid's ass
I'll spend the day so drunk that I can't speak
And wear all black for the rest of the week
Guys act all sweet, but soon it will fade
For all they are trying to do is get laid
The arrow Cupid shot at me must not have hit
Because I think love is a crock of shit
So here is my congratulations...
What else can I say...
Love bits my ass... Fuck Valentines Day!!!
I cannot confirm nor deny the allegation or allegations you may or may not have just made
I'm happy for them and wish them the best, but c'mon. Proposing on valentines day and Taco posting it to slashdot is about as original as giving someone a gift for christmas. I would think that anything else is more creative and original. I am , however, enjoying the comments and do appreciate that. Again, I hope they have the best of times.
Here's a better picture than the one that people have been linking to (at least on the first page, you really think I'm going to read 900 comments to see if this is a duplicate?).
Congratulations Rob. I'm sure you two will be great.
shawty
Woo, way to go Cmdr, congrats, you'll gradually forget you had any willpower to make decisions of your own...but don't fret, there are other benifits that make up for the loss of volition :)
Welcome to our ranks!
"Christ what a design! I could eat a handful of iron filings and PUKE a better emergency pump than that!"
Congratulations.
;)
Heres to a happy marriage, hoping the sound of tiny feet is not too far away.
After all the more up and coming coders the better
Oh that was one of the sweetest things I've ever read. Congrats! Oh my god you guys are cute!
Ferna of the Fern people.
Pretty ugly list of options, if you ask me.
Perhaps Natalie Portman as the maid of honor, with hot grits to be served at the reception.
-Cybrex
Boundless Expansion, Self-Transformation, Dynamic Optimism, Intelligent Technology, Spontaneous Order- BEST DO IT SO!
way to propose ever. :)
Good luck to both of you.
Congrats Rob & Kathleen!!!
How exactly is this news for nerds? Am I missing something here?
Kathleen Fent
A truly geeky proposal ;)
Best wishes to you both.
many congrats chap :)
need a free COBOL editor for Windows?
Congratulations to you both!
--Mythos
here
You know, I agree with you, but OTOH I proposed to my wife on Valentine's Day as well. In my defense, however, I can offer the fact that I was such a clod that I didn't even notice the date until afterwards.
This next song is very sad. Please clap along. -- Robin Zander
Way to go! I'm getting married tomorrow so I know what it's like!
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Now *that* is beautiful!
Aren't we forgetting something? If she's good enough to marry, she's good enough to be a "friend" on Slashdot! Kathleen's Fans All that's left is this and the ring, dude!
He Must Be Serious.....He spell checked.
Oh, and grats!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
At the wedding, you guys should have the guests throw grits (not cooked, still dry) instead of rice. Make it a real slashdot affair.
to you both!
Good Job!
Getting married was the smartest thing I ever did--followed closely by the three kids.
Best wishes,
B.O. Feb. 14, 2002
best of luck you guys
yes, we have no bananas
Oh, damn, a bit late for that.
Anyway, I hope that we dont find out where the wedding is - you'll never get round to the vows with all the people shouting 'First Post', holding pictures of a man doing something frankly disgusting, complaing about the service, and the fact the church cant withstand the slashdotting.
The reception would probably be awesome though...
-- This is not a sig. But I'm a liar.
... you are LAME!
Hey Rob,
Congrats. I hope everything goes well for you both. When's the big day?
T.
"...I think it takes more guts to propose in front of all the flamers..."
:p
I would hope that User #1 is pretty flame-proof by now. I doubt there's anything a troll could say to really get under his skin. The only possible flames could have come from you. Fortunately, I've yet to see an outlandish proposal (billboard displays, newspaper ads, etc.) fail, and this was no exception.
And I wouldn't really call it guts. There's a certain personality type that will propose in public - or even in as massively public of a manner possible - and there's a certain type that will do it in a more intimate manner. It's more a question of style.
I'm not criticizing it (but like I said, it's irrelevent if anyone but you would) - in this case, using a public forum that is a big part of your life to propose I found kinda cute - even if it is on Valentine's Day.
And so have many others - this thread is up to over 1,000 posts, a good contender for the hall of fame.
Congratulations for both of you :)
Heh, this was about as romantic as when I proposed to my woman!
There we were, laying in bed, her complaining about not being engaged after going out for 5 years (and living together for 4). So I get annoyed, get up, go into the living room, write a date on a Post-It(tm) and hand it to her. No ring or anything!
Of course, she's expecting a nice big rock in the near future, so I have only won in the short term =/
I can almost hear them...
http://www.club977.com/ - The 80's Channel!
Your source for commercial free 80's music!
Congratulations to the future KathleenTaco! (Does this mean she has to change her account name now?)
--GrouchoMarx
Card-carrying member of the EFF, FSF, and ACLU. Are you?
So happy congratulations and all the best wishes for you two!!! =)))
petril from dark, cold Finland
"Never give up, never surrender!"
while I vomit....
-- "Perceptions create reality. By changing your perceptions you change your reality."
Moderation Totals: Flamebait=1, Troll=1, Insightful=2, Informative=5, Overrated=2, Total=11.
Okay, who're the idiots? And can someone please mod the parent back up where it belongs, please?
Nope, no sig
as a woman and a geek, THAT WAS SO SWEET!!!
rings are outdated. i proposed to my hubby, and didn't have a ring. i just have a wedding band. much more practical than a big ole honkin' diamond that will break on hardware (gold is not that sturdy, boys, go for platinum)
Congratulations!
:-)
My wife, a true-life rocket scientist, and I just got married 3 months ago. I can attest that marriage is the most wonderful thing! May God bless you and keep you both in love always! Thank you for sharing this moment with all of Slashdot.
been so long, I forgot my nick!, so its AC for me
Chin up, fella. You did good.
so who is he, anyway?
Go-on, you know you want the title of "Most-watched online wedding". ;D
slainfu
"I can't be a terrorist if you're sucking my bum."
you've made it onto Wired news0 0. html
t ml
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50428,
and the Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/24072.h
Is it possible for Slashdot to get Slashdotted?
t
Its true, that was really lame dude. Who do you want to impress? Us or your girl?
Congrats, Taco :)
(and I have to hand it to you, that was a classy geek way of asking, all of us wish we could ask our potentials over /.)
Contrary to popular belief, I don't actually make my website for other people to look at.
Congratulations, guys... always nice to see people find each other for that moment of happiness. Everyone, you realize this is going to be printed out and shown off at the reception, right? Be nice to them!
PS - next time, maybe hide the cleavage shot before proposing... it seems to be the most popular part of her site at the moment....
I wish there was a choice that said "Factually Wrong -1" when I mod.
1) Not a single typo.. I guess whe you care, you can do it.. Now, care daily..
...
:-)
3) [...] A veritable harrem..
By the way, it's harem
:)
...that taco might finally get laid?
Please dude, for the love of jesus, dont reproduce.
This is just another congratulations among many. You completely abused your power by doing this on here. And that's very very cool.
Best of luck to you and the future Mrs. Taco!!!
Good luck to both of you...
Mark
From/ lw -10-slashdot.html
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1998-10
Oct. 1998, By Rob Malda:
A few years ago I decided that I needed a hobby.
I wanted to spend lots of time inside, getting very little exercise, drinking beer, and eating junk food. Since I was a much better programmer than bowler, I decided to start a Web site. It was vastly superior to bowling in many ways: less physical activity, more spam, and besides, you never hear about supermodels marrying bowlers.
=)
Congratulations!!
After all the shit that you put up with the trolls, and the goatsex people --- some congratulations are in order! Thank you for starting Slashdot and congratulations on your marriage! What better way to pop the question than on the biggest geek forum in the world!
I hope that married life won't interfere with your witty comments and timely news stories. When can we expect some little soft tacos running around? Are we invited to the wedding?
How the hell do you outdo proposing on a popular geek website in front of thousands... and leaving the comments on?
I'll be racking my brains for months on this one. Nice one Rob, couldn't do it the old-fashioned way to make it easy on the rest of us poor schlubs, could ya?:)
Congratulations you two.
Someday, you're going to die. Get over it.
well, you have to say it don't you?
Two things:
1) remember, your wedding day is not *your* wedding day. It's your parents' day. Remember that, and everything will be fine.
2) be honest with each other, always.
Have fun!
maybe
It's somewhat depressing that my favourite nerd-website surpasses me, even when it comes to being romantic. You know, I don't come here to get my inadequacies slapped in the face.
But what the heck... Congratulations!! Make it up to me by being very, very happy.
Quote:
Knowledge is power. It's great to know where to find the really important information.
Kiwaiti
Member of the Legion Of Microsoft Haters
Otherwise why would she possibly consent to be called Mrs. Taco?!?
I stole this Sig
Best of luck to you both...
"better ways of doing things eventually just replace the inferior things" - Linus Torvalds 09-08-07
Rob, by the time I checked Slashdot this morning there were already over a thousand comments on this, er, "story," but I figured one more congrats wouldn't hurt. Best of luck to you both and congratulations! -CF
Are we all invited? How many karma points do we need to get invited? Where and when will the wedding/convention be? Who will preside? Can't be Linus, because he can't get a notary license. Will your marriage vows be based on GPL? Or, better than marriage, just form an "Limited Liability Company with Durable Medical Power of Attorney", so your rights do not change for state to state.
A touch redundant perhaps but at least I actually got round to registering a user to do it :)
Congratulations to you both!!!!
How many years have they been together? Just curious...
Hemo & Natalie Portman
ellem & killcreek
michael & JonKatz
CowboyNeal & The Hot Grits recently in Natalie Portman's pants
This
Heh. One of the few front-page stories i've seen go over 1000 comments.
Time to contribute to wasting space in the sql server, I guess!
space waster space waster space waster space waster space waster space waster space waster space waster space waster space waster space waster space waster space waster space waster space waster space waster space waster space waster space waster space waster space waster space waster space waster space waster.
Well I'll just join in and say congrats! I hope you two have fun :)
Maan
My mother is Jewish, but I was not offended by his anti-Semitic remark. In fact, I was angered by your pointless poo-pooing of his post. I had delved into these -1 depths to find some good trolls. Instead, I encounter some dorkus malorkus who thinks s/he is accomplishing something by making a blatantly obvious moral statement. I have more to say on the subject, but as I tend to be long-winded I have posted my thoughts here
Magnatune: Quality (DRM-free) MP3/FLAC/
If I told you once, I've told you a thousand times.
/., Taco has won.
The day I get a login just to troll
----Kathleen
Nothing original, -- just a heartfelt congratulations to the both of you. ( Kathleen Fent -> Kathleen Taco. Oy, she must love you. )
Man, that is really cool. Romantic, but in a cool way. Those must have been the scariest 15 and a half minutes of your life. Wow. I wish you the best of luck, and many happy years together. Mazel Tov!
I'm the stranger...posting to
I wonder if she remembers what one of those is?
All the best for both of you and your
future! I have been married for 11 years now
(at age 34), there've been rough times and
good times, but I wouldn't want to miss a single
day!
good luck & best wishes,
uwe
Ever wondered whats wrong with the world? http://www.ishmael.org/
The e-mail exchange...
>>>>>> Yes!
>>>>> Yes, what?
>>>> Yes, I'll marry you!
>>> Huh? You are such a kidder.
>>Proposing to me over Slashdot was so romantic!
>>Should we plan on a June wedding?
> I don't know how to tell you this, but
> someone hacked Slashdot. I didn't post
> that. I mean, I love you and all, but
> I'm not ready for that kind of commitment.
> Besides, things are really so great
> between us, I'd hate to do anything to
> mess it up.
Kathy? Did you get my last message (see above)? Hey, I got you a heart shaped box of chocolate. Maybe we can go to a movie tonight. I think you've got a problem with your phone. Every time I've called, it rings once, sounds like it's being picked up, and then disconnects. Call me. Please. Luv U!
...
Congratulations Rob & Kathleen!
:)
Seeing how slow everything is, I guess this answer the question of what it takes to slashdots slashdot!
-Bill
SlashSig Karma: Excellent (mostly affected by moderatio
Congrats! Enjoy the hapiness of marriage and companionship!
Firstus Postus, Beeeotchii!!!!
Bow down and worship my resplendent tintinabulations!!!
pleeeeease?!!!
Dork indeed! :-)
She has a website, though, so perhaps this is strangely appropriate. Of course now we'll have the frightening prospect of 'Taquitos' running around!
Seriously, Rob & Kathleen. Congrats.
Welcome to our world now!
Just wanted to be on record. Best wishes to the both of you.
so there will be internet streaming of the thw wedding and the brides bouquet will be thrown virtually ?
... whenever a text is transmitted, variation occurs. This is because human beings are careless, fallible, and occasiona
Holy crap, is Slashdot being Slashdotted?!
Congratulations!
Let's try and break the database! =)
Remember: umount it before you fsck it.
Pre-nup.
for the curious geeks who want a decent picture,
here is one.
Just don't let JonKatz near the bar at the reception.
I have nothing to say... it's just that everyone else was commenting...
-- "Is this death or is this Ohio?"
Could you provide links next time you do this?
in her prefs. Otherwise that might have been a LONG fifteen minutes. :)
:)
*sigh* Slashdot humor. It just never gets old.
Congratulations, you two
---
"how can the same street intersect with itself? i must be at the nexus of the universe!" - cosmo kramer
From Taco's journal, dated today: "It was a fun time, and we're both pleased as could be over how things turned out. Well, except for the fact that the Slashdot Server seems to be having some sort of hiccup over the thousand+ comments in that story. Nothing like a wedding proposal and comment avalanche to reveal a performance bug! "
/. master and ubergeek Taco would add that last sentence, and even be WORRYING about slashdot at a time like this ;)
Only
Redheads are god's gift to the men of the world. I should know, I married one :)
Congratulations you two and I wish you all the best!
EOM
I hate to say it, but I think I figured out the real reason Taco asked this way:
1) To set a new record for comments posted in an hour.
2) To set a new record for total comments posted on a story.
sorry, had to say it...
*EVILGRIN*
Geek Marriage Guide
/. too.
;)
1) Propose to beloved on website (preferablly one with high traffic and comments).
0 - Check!
2) Hold IRC Bachelor/Bachelerette Party. DCC stripper.
0 -
3) Webcams are a must at the ceremonies.
0 -
3a) Wireless internet access must be present for physical attendants of the ceremonies. They must be able to particapate in the "CmdrTaco Marries Kathleen" story on
0 -
4) Webcams at.... ah never mind
5) Deletion of pr0n from harddrive begins.
0 -
6) Deletion of pr0n from harddruve ends (this step may take several days).
0 -
7) Congratulations. You are now a married Geek!
Best of Wishes to the both of you. Cheers!
Congratulations CmdrTaco and Kathleen!!!
Hmmm...a geek wedding....lots of possibilities....
"Me fail English, that's unpossible." --Ralphie
may of been said before once or twice, but nonetheless, Well Done
Waiting for an amusing sig.
So will the bride be changing her name to Mrs. Kathleen Taco?!
... will the vows also be posted? :)
Rob you are the quintessential geek, the geeks geek.
:)
I wish you two many happy years together.
My advice? Give her everything she wants, avoid the argument
Congrats!!!
I proposed to my ex-girlfriend in the form of an obfuscated c program that drew the mandelbrot set rotated so that it looked like a heart. In the center it said "Would you marry me?". The bands of "color" in the fractal were taken from the characters in that string.
She thought it was junk email and deleted it, never even compiling the damn thing.
I broke up with her after that, and I've been single and bitter ever since.
Are there no clever, cynical geek-women out there?
RiscIt: /. proposal
RiscIt: has 1147 comments
RiscIt: this is wrong on SO many levelsz
DefCon parties are wild enough, image what that would be like??
Way to go! I presume youwere on bended knee and attached ring.png when you sent your proposal?
Congratulations to you two, and the best of luck for the future!
--Another slashdotter with a goofy grin on his face.
...instead of confetti?
Best wishes on the marriage Rob!
Congrats to both of you! May your new life together bring much happiness.
Where was the sign "whoever posts here will become a +5"? I missed it.
/.
Rob, a quarter million geeks wishing the best for you both sure will prepare a good karma road for your wedding. Best wishes.
Man, it take guts to post your proposal on
soon to be married man club question though : what do you call a soon married geek? preek?
Congratulations to you both.
And dammit, I don't care if it's already been posted, it needs to be said again. =)
The only surefire protection against Microsoft infections is abstinence. - The Onion
Congratulations to you both.
"If there's anything more important than my ego, I want it caught and shot now." -- Z. Beeblebrox
... people's obsession with getting married. 'One ring to rule them all', fe real...
A World in a Grain of Sand / Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Infinity in the Palm of your Hand / And Eternity in an Hour.
Picture of the couple.
Don't you just love sites with virtual directory listings enabled?
All the trolls said Rob was gay...I don't know what to think now. Well congrats anyhow Rob. I guess it is time to retire the "I [heart] Rob" shrine that has gotten me many a karma points. So...is CowboyNeal...a real cowboy?
I'm a loner Dottie, a Rebel.
LOL...Obviously you do if you spent the time to post a comment on a subject you don't care about???
Am I the only one who thinks this comment is funny? Are you some chick that Cmdr Taco snubbed like years ago and you have been jealously tracking his movements ever since?
Same thing with Katz, if you don't care, don't read it and don't get involved in the topic!
ZERO ZERO ONE ZERO ONE ZERO ONE ONE! Just brushing up for my next big invention: Ethernet over Voice (EoV)
Imagine making a Beowulf cluster of these!
Congrats!
by Mike Buddha -- Someday the mountain might get him, but the law never will.
Feels good dosen't it. Best of luck.
muegge.
Reader since 1998.
I don't usualy pay any attention to the banners, but this one just caught my eye!
guru in training
Way to go Taco !!!
:(
Sorry to see you go, but that's the way life is
(Al Bundy Fan)
I'd tell you the chances of this story being a dupe, but you wouldn't like it.
Congratulations!!
Please talk to me
The really good news about all of this (for /. readers): Married people have less time to go out and see movies, so we can expect fewer horrible movie reviews here.
::Colz Grigor // I'm just trying to be funny... Best wishes to Taco and Ms. Fent.
--
http://www.fent.net/graphics/randk.jpg
Now, the only problem is when I want to ask, I will have to find a bigger way! Maybe a message from space?
Anyway, congrats. I hope our story goes like yours...
Rob,
On Valentines day...that's so sweet!
My best to you and new your life together!
Congratulations!
-AP
Aren't they the cutest? Rob has taken to voicing Sushi's "inner thoughts" in a breathy falsetto, and it is very cute... except when she calls me the "C" word. She is a very, very naughty kitten.
Yikes...
I guess that means we'll have /. editors for years to come
-
-
Congradulations guys! Best wishes!
I think we're all redundant here, but Congratulations.
This better not interfere with Slashdot, however, so please keep all romantic interludes to slow news days!
Please subscribe to see the more insightful version of th
Way to go Taco! That took guts man! My hat's off to ya!
I've only been married for one year, but here's some advice that I received, and I found was true, and want to pass along..
"A man marries a woman expecting her not to change, and she does. A woman marries a man expecting him to change, but he doesn't."
I'm not sure who originated the quote, but it is true. Just be prepared for the changes, and remember that love is what brought you together in the first place! Oh, and never go to bed angry, or leave the house angry. Oh, and watch what you say, (women are sensitive to jokes), and have a kick ass honeymoon, and NO, computers are not allowed! (on the honeymoon)
I noticed -- in fact, I put an ad in the school paper. I was in RI, Donna was in ME. One of her friends walked up to her after class and said "Did you look at the paper today?" "No...." "Let me show you something."
Will your wedding be open admission to all the slashdot crowd? Have someone at the entrance hooked up with a slashdot db and you give them your username and pw to get in...
You better have a wireless LAN there (for checking slashdot of course) and be prepared to say no to those trying to bring in their watercooled Athlon systems.
Seriously, though, this is really cool. It's a little cliche, but oh well the main point is it worked. Congrats to you both!
"I'll just chip in a bit for RedHat: I actually have that installed on my university machine." - Linus, '95
Yup.
Good job, Rob! Are we all invited to the wedding?
So long, and thanks for all the Phish
I spent a while trying to think of something clever or witty to say, but it seems like everything's taken already (and that's reading at +2!). Oh well...
Congratulations Rob and Kathleen!
Stuart.
PS I did actually *think* of posting a "one ring to bind them" comment before I read the three or four that are already here, though. I guess some things are just too obvious.
From all the Anonymous Cowards of the world.
Ha,
:-)
Is this a Slashdot first? I think so. Well, it's sweet. Congrats to you both.
Happy Valentine's Day.
Colin Bell
First of all Congratulations to both of you. ;)
It make me wonder, if the priest is going to pronounce you two husband and wife on slashdot also?
Congratulations from an Anonymous Coward!
Drew, I wanted to do this in this most potentially noticeable way possible, and I figured doing it here and now, in front of a quarter of a million strangers was as good a chance as any that you'd read it. I love you more then I can describe within the limits of this tiny little story. Although I've never met you, I saw you on E.T. and ever since then I've known that I wanted to spend my life with you. Enough rambling. Will you marry me? Update 1 minute 30 seconds later: Email from HFA, Subj: "No", message body: "Please cease and desist or we will sue you for harassment and other unmentionables." Crap! This happened when I wrote to Angelina Jolie! :(
Producer: NEXT!!
Ralph Wiggum: Chicken necks
Congratzz..
/. got almost /.-ed.
btw: at 17.00 GMT it took about 10-15 seconds before te page loaded (have cable connection).
Indeed,
Greetinx
Congratulations man... I really mean that my friend of 10+ years that I hadn't spoken too for a good year or more called me up today and said he was getting married to his girlfriend too. What an amazing day. I'm just glad it's not my turn LOL... Best of luck to ya man.
I bet that was a long 15 minutes & 30 seconds. :)
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
I hope the wedding will be webcast
Cupid's Bull's-Eye on Nerd Site ;)
now your really famous
Thousands of geeks were hit hard by the Love Bug on Valentine's Day morning. This time the bug isn't spreading an e-mail virus, but through a message on techie website Slashdot. Rob Malda, better known as CmdrTaco, editor and founder of Slashdot, posted a marriage proposal to his long-time girlfriend, Kathleen Fent, on the front page of the techie website Thursday morning.
Congrats!
Just wanted to say congratulations and best wishes. I bet even the rest of the K5ers are happy for you!
.sig wanted: Must be concise, funny, and display my cleverness.
Oh, yeah, right. Sorry
We now resume our regularly scheduled programming.
:wq
Congratulations, CT! Good luck.
I know everybody else is saying this, but congratulations!
Tony Jeffries
Congratulation to Rob and Kathleen!
I wish you both as much happiness as my husband and I have had these past fifteen years!
Geek love rules!
Mariette
3 computers, 5 OSes, 2 happy geeks and 3 geeklings
Someone should set up some sort of micropayment system to get these two somethin nice for the wedding; like a car or whatever they feel like. Imagine, if 10,000 /.ers contribute a buck each, that's 10 grand. Or maybe we can be more modest, and only ask for a few cents, and get em...I dunno. But this should be done!
-Abe
"McBane to base: Under attack by Commie Nazis!" -the Simpsons
So basically y'all just invited 150,000 trolls to your wedding. [mental image of a bunch of large green people fidgeting in white tuxedo/dress outfits under the watchful eyes of a squadron of truncheon[1]-armed moderators... and the single most popular wedding present would be fairly predictable]
Kidding aside, w00t! Congratulations! I did the bent knee thing, but for a twist I hid the ring in her clothes so I pulled it out of her pocket instead of mine...
[1] Five use only, patent pending,
News for Geeks in Austin, TX
Anyway, congrats, Taco.
Chris Beckenbach
That's what she said.
First people propose in the news papers. Then they propose on TV. Now, they are proposing on the Internet. How am I supposed to get an original idea how to propose now? Congrats and many years of happiness to you both!
Cogito, ergo sum.
Congratulations! Congratulations! Congratulations!
God was my copilot, but then we crashed on the top of a mountain and i had to eat him...
but congratulations anyway. Just fantastic. I hope your fiancee likes that picture from the website. Its in the browser cache of nearly every geek on earth by now.
-
Yo Taco,
:-)
excellent form chap! Wonderfully romantic.
Enjoy the bliss.
Greek Geek
As a geek newlywed myself, Congratulations CmdrTaco.
-Pat
You do realize that you will HAVE to webcast the wedding now? I bet you'll more traffic than the Victoria's Secret webcasts.
Congrats to both of you - may you remain best friends for life!
Why would anyone WANT to marry Taco? He's one big fat fucker. Imagine being mounted by that!
I wish both of you nothing but the best. :-)
Way to go Rob! Contratulations on your wedding! I wish you both the best! You should set up a gift registry online and provide your address so we can send cards or gifts!
Why not go for a world record? Have the reception outdoors in a stadium and invite 250,000 of your closest friends over for a toast!
You better watch out for all those open sores he's always talking about!
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
I must differ in the term "strangers" - although I did not even know of Kathleen, I have had the honor to be personally flamed by Rob in response to an email (I probably deserved it...).
We are a community, and that's a *good thing* - we may not all be best buds, but in our daily reading and posting here, we all know each other, IMHO.
Many Happy Returns, Kids!
db
Cig:
ôô
I must convey my warmest congratulations to you both!
So when's the big day?
.
.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
So, Kathleen, how does it feel to be closing on the levels of discussion of that fateful day? :)
Congratulations and Felicitations. May your life together be happy and prosperous.
-- Azaroth
...congratulations. One less reason to have to wear the Big Black Matrix Coat today.
=)
"I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing."
Are all slashdot suscribers invited to the wedding?
I'd sure like to see some Linux-kiss and the bride's open-source-dess.
May your life together be even more joyous than you imagine, and your love of each other deepen for all the days of your lives.
Okay, here's a bit of blatant vote-manipulation, but it's in a good cause, and it's not like anyone's going to read the twelve-hundred-and-somethingth post anyway...
:)
If you have an account on www.kuro5hin.org, you'll notice this story is in the queue of submissions. At the time of writing it needs about 30 more votes to be posted (minus anyone who votes against it in the meantime), and the proportion of votes that say "front page" needs to increase by about 10% for it to get there.
Go vote it up!
Stuart.
...is someone who writes in the English language for a living and doesn't even understand the difference between "then" and "than". After being corrected by hundreds of readers on numerous occasions. And gets it wrong in his own damn (very public) marriage proposal.
DORK!
She should insist on him taking remedial English as a condition of marriage.
...
6. Create a website devoted to computer/geek topics, spend a few years cultivating a worldwide audience, and drop da bomb on V-Day.
...
Congratulations!
Happy Valentines day, especially to the future Mr and Mrs Taco. Marriage is a great thing, especially for geeks, because now you will always have someone to with whom to discuss the latest in plaid fashions, help you organize your spare scsi cards, and of course hopefully engage in procreation, therby attaining the geek dream of having a 1/8th sized near clone of yourself.
N3
[Did monkey's code the 2.4.x kernel series? Find out at www.slashdork.org]
To both of you - marriage is bliss
Ph0bia
Here's wishing you both many happy years together!
No warlording in bed.
So when is the first litter of taquitos expected?
And Kathleen, please keep your last name... Sooner or later, someone is going to call you "Kat" Taco, and you know it's going to stick.
Congrats!
Karma: 0 (But I wield a mean +10 Vorpal Apathy)
Congratulations and good luck!
The only request my wife-to-be has made, is that I don't name any of the kids after operating systems (or their mascots). Although I'm sure she'd agree with some of the prenup suggestions that have been added to this thread...
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
...it just took a bit of courage.
Now what would take balls would be to post the location, date, and time of the wedding on Slashdot.
No comment.
How do I mark the STORY down as a troll?
Linux O Muerte!
Well done you two.
Have a good life together!
| What, you were expecting
-O_O- +---- something witty?
There once was a fellow named Taco
Ran a web site for geeks, most un-macho
Asked Miss Fent for her hand
With a twisted-pair band
Then they both honeymooned in Morocco
damn it!
So, Kathleen, what first attracted you to the millionaire Rob Malda ?
Big congrats on getting hitched. I registered here just to tell you that. :)
On behalf of the Electric Minds community, congratulations, Rob. Long life and much happiness to you both.
Eric
Be who you are...and be it in style!
For a moment there i thought he was selling his pet hamster or something :)
Congrats Taco, may you get all the love and hapiness that real nerds only dream about!
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
Now for a blatant plug, set a date and go visit my wife's Wedding Invitation business and order your invitations. We expect there to be lots of wedding pic stories soon.
Brian
Remember Lexington Green!
Only a complete and utter nerd would propose on his website!
Congrabulations, Commander! Best wishes and all that!
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
Way to go. Enjoy your lives together.
...ignore the sig.
"Why Subscribe?" Good question...
First of all, that took great big stainless clanking ones. High risk = high reward. :)
Secondly, I got all excited and teary - They're getting married, I'm so happy....
And then it hit me. I sound like a soap opera fan.
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
(THUMP Thump thump thump SLAM!)
AAAAAAAaaaaaahhhhhhh..........
We need a hof measurement for "most moderator points spent on 'funny'".
(it's very well possible my spanish sucks..)
Care about electronic freedom? Consider donating to the EFF!
Good Luck to the Two of you - Mad Scientist Couple
But i`m available if someone wants to marry me...
PLEASE ANSWER!!!!
Many happy years together...
Congratulations! You'll love being institutionalized! Mmmm...the food. Then there is of course your friends, her friends, pets, bills, MOTHER-IN-LAWS ;) Enjoy..enjoy!! Do you drink? You will oh CodeWalker you WILL;)
pharphetch
Has anyone else noticed the typo where he uses then instead of than? "I love you more 'then' I can describe..."?
This may be a premanition or it might be done on purpose for a future escape - once he realizes what he's asking for.
Freud is rolling over in his grave - laughing!
many years of good fortune for you!
Love it that someone has moderated the wife to be as offtopic ;)
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
I wish you guys many happy years together.
check out Zdnet
I've been a silent /.er for many moons, so I feel like this is a family event...
Congratulations!
I got this from a t-shirt and think it will help all of us single geeks out there that are still waiting for something like this to happen to them:
How to meet chicks:
1. Pump iron three times a day
2. Join a rock and roll band
3. If all else fails, stuff a sock down your pants
The last one assumes, of course, that you have opted in for the "pants" option.
My life's goal is to get a score of +3!
L-O-S-E-R You are not even man enough to do it in person. I'm sure you are one hell of a romantic... hey baby, forget about real romance, let's do it over the old keyboard!! dude
Wow. 1341 comments. That seems like a lot. I wonder what the record is for most comments on a slashdot story? I couldn't resist adding one more.
I wonder if this story will be picked up by the major media?
I wonder if anyone is actually going to bother reading comments at 1:1037 to moderate stupid stuff like this post?
Congratulations, Taco & Kathleen. Great Valentines day story.
Will the marriage photos be posted on slashdot? :-)
1. Are we invited to the wedding?
2. Can we crash at your place?
3. Will you have a simulcast of the wedding for those too cheap/////far away to attend?
4. When's the bachelor party?
5. When's the bachelorette party?
6. Can we go to both?
7. Will the wedding be Open Source?
8. Will the ring you give her say "One Ring To Rule Them All" in Elvish?
9. Is Jon Katz invited? Can we dunk him in the punch bowl?
-
--- Will in Seattle - What are you doing to fight the War?
**sniff** **sniff**
....
Congrats Taco...
In A.D. 2002
Marrage was beginning.
Taco: What happen ?
CowboyNeal: Somebody set up us the post!
Hemos: We get answer!
Taco: What !
CowboyNeal: Main screen turn on
Taco: It's You !!
Kathleen: How are you Taco !!
Kathleen: All your base are belong to me
Kathleen: You are on the way to married life
Taco: What you say !!
Kathleen: You have no chance to survive make your time
Kathleen: HA HA HA HA
Good luck Taco and Kathleen!!!
-- Your local friendly mad scientist-in-training
Musta been a tough wait. :) Congratulations!
There's more to it than this.
Kathleen you just won a "I married that geek ->" t-shirt.
Have a nice weeding!
/Lehmann
yup, the site is taking hits way too fast ...
--- Will in Seattle - What are you doing to fight the War?
Obviously... http://www.geekcruises.com David
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." - Marx
Félicitations.
Must be a slow news day this is a story on news.com
http://www.geekcruises.com Obviously.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." - Marx
Wish you long life and happiness.
See the wired article about all of this.
Incredible.
Lawrence Lessig is my personal hero.
Well, I remember the days when people thought we'd all remain unmarried to others, and married to our computers. Lemme see, Jeff got married, You are engaged, I'm engaged, who's next? Yazz? Timothy? The World is coming to an end!!
:)
Seriously dude, congrats, I would have emailed you, but I figured you're getting enough email. I assume with this proposal that life is well for you
Have good one. and Congratulations again!
-Trish
FreeBSD The Power to Serve
Quickly before it ends, man, you will never forget the anniversary AND you save on gifts!!
:)
I did it, today is my 4th anniversary, bought the wife a digital camera too, don't ask how I got away with that one
Congradulations to the both of you. May you happily explore each other bit by bit all night long. Now the question: where to get married? Do it in Quake, so we can all attend. :)
No man is complete until he's married, and then he's finished!
Are they going to have a beowulf cluster of Little Commander "Taco" Jr's?
We are all going straight to hell.
What an appropriate way to propose. Let's see how many posts /. can handle.
You had me at
A new geek legend to tell my kids about.
is hella gay.
It seems that the logical place to get married is of course in a webcast on slashdot. I mean, why not go all out ? Best wishes, Peter Svedman Sweden
Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see by infra-red, How I hate the night.
(and best wishes too, mainly to override the LOUD CONGRATULATIONS FILTER)
sulli
RTFJ.
1) Posting a lot of messages to a website is not evidence of passion. 2) Valentine's day has nothing to do with passion.
Rob: Kids, did I ever tell you how I proposed to your grandma?
... what's a "web-site?"
Kids (Sighing): No, grandpa.
Rob: Well, I ran a successful website called Slashdot. And one day, I asked her to marry me. On the front page. Where everybody could see it.
Kids: Um, grandpa
-Baka!
I love Brent! So much for a romantic valentine's day post proclaiming my feelings for him. I guess they aren't kidding about using that preview button instead of submit....
Ummm, what will the URL of the ceremony be? If just for the coolness factor, I'd like to attend, but you might not want .25M of your closest friends there... So how about a stream?
Where's the bride registered?
In a world without walls, there is no need for Windows.
...but most of us married folk love it. Don't listen to the nay-sayers. They either can't hack it or just don't know how to keep one going. It's a lot like Linux...
Congratulations you two. Now you'll experience geekiness squared. It'll be great!
Nearly fifty percent of all graduates come from the bottom half of the class!
Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of CmdrTacquitos? Now that'd be a handful... :)
:)
BTW, anyone who says "Is this news for nerds...?" etc. is a complete and total moron, and should be modded as such.
Also, you greatly improved my otherwise lonely and exam-filled V-Day.
One more thing: if you are CmdrTaco, why are you reading this? You should be celebrating with your fiance long after this discssion is archived
Congrats to you both.
LOTR: Elijah Wood is a munchkin asshat. Yes, asshat. LOL.
As one who is in the mittle of a Wedding planing , the works has just begun. Best to both of you , and Remeber, the yelling is only out of love.
I know nothing...It is Ok because I am from Barcelona!
It's NERD. ru sure about this union, Taco?
No sig for you!!
I should've learned by now to check Slashdot for news first.
No, Thursday's out. How about never - is never good for you?
Taco
Completely seriously, post your wedding list on Slashdot.
We'd like to show the appreciation of this fun forum and the affection us Geeks feel for you in a material way. So post your (extensive) list of desired wedding gifts online and watch the Slashdot effect as it provides you with a million toast racks.
Dave.
--- These are not words: wierd, genious, rediculous
I know this is asking for -1, Redundant, but Congratulations Taco & Kathleen. The best of luck to both of you.
sharkyfour.com
Congratulations!!! Making internet history . Not bad!
Congrats, but Damn.... Just another reminder I am doing the lonely hearts thing tonight......
Linux is unix training wheels, while BSD *is* unix.
I wish you both a lifetime of happiness!
tip: just make sure the toilet seat gets put down and everything will be just great.
...congratulations, guys! Take it from a techie who's been married over 6 deleriously happy years that it's worth it! I'm married to another geek, myself. ;)
My only advice (and I really hope you read this) ALWAYS talk things out and NEVER go to bed angry.
Oh, I guess I have one more: go to an Irish store if you can, one with Belleek china. Buy a thing called a 'Peace Bell'. If you are having an argument, you ring the bell and the argument is agreed to be over, neither person has to say they're sorry and all is forgiven, end of story, end of fight.
My wife and I have one of those bells and it has saved our marriage more than once, but now after 6 years and more, we don't even need it anymore to stop fighting.
Good luck and don't give up on it!
-Jax
contrats!!
...I had no problem on 9/11 getting to MSNBC.com, but cnn.com was a IP black hole. That was until speakeasy's NYC POP ran out of diesel for the generator. Then I couldn't get to any .com except my own.
-Kelt
(My intelligence insults itself.)
My intelligence insults itself.
This has totally made my day, and I don't know either of you. Funny old world...
read comments that are this far down the list.
i could live a little longer in this prison
Just wanted to add my words of congratulations to the other 25,000 odd posts saying exactly the same thing.
Anyway, Congratulations.
The complete news published there is this
Congratulations, and have a happy marriage!
Your good old days are just beginning!
dont you already have 2 45" plasma TVs!!! Is the third for the child thats on the way???? /. post was a spoof to throw us all off!
AH HA! I know the _REAL_ reason there getting married... the
If you were an international terrorist what OS would you use???
As I post this, the total postings has climbed past 1400, so I've got to add one more.
Congratulations
so since yuou pulled the ultimate in geek proposals - will the ring be a token ring?.
.
sorry.
.
Well, I'm at a loss for words, although it HAS been a while since I saw a marriage proposal online. The only other one I can think of is at Demisecomics.com and Penny-Arcade.com. Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if Nightlightpress.com's guy pops the question soon, but I'm not pressuring him.
...congratulations, Taco and Kathleen!
Greetings from Switzerland,
Raymond
P.S. - I must admit I'm jealous. Some guys really have it all: UID 1 on Slashdot AND Kathleen as a wife.
P.P.S. - Imagine a beowulf cluster of kids...
"There are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare." - Blair Houghton
Might as well be nice like everyone else.
Have fun you two, have a great future.
-- Tick, tock, tick, tock. . .
Shouldn't this really be in Ask Slashdot?
I mean, it's a quarter million people who know aobut this right off the bat...
It's still romantic, though!
hey rob heres an idea. since you were first marriage post on /. - why not have the first web-cam-enabled wedding (a webbing?). and wedding nigh... er... nevermind.
just post some decent pics after the event. or why not get married at linux world. ok nevermind that too.
grats!
.
Hope you have a long, happy, and productive(!?) marrige.
Congrats, both of you.
/. HOF
I dont know either of you and most probably never will.
but what the hell, this makes your proposal one step closer to the
Will there be a webcast of the event?
Winton
Congratulations to you both, and if your marriage has one tenth the passion and joy of ours (going on thirty years now) you'll be in fine shape indeed.
We wish you well.
You do realize, of course, that you must record the wedding and post it as a special episode of "Geeks In Space".
In Ogg Tarkin format, natch.
www.eFax.com are spammers
At least some geeks might be breeding. ;)
I wish you both the best of luck.
CT, I am jealous. She's real cute.
So, do we get to watch the marriage on streaming video, maybe get an ogg vorbis stream of the dj's sets at the afterparty?????
Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Embarassing? If she said "no", now that would be embarassing.
=brian
A few thoughts:
Think of all the money saved on wedding announcements!
Does this mean all quarter of a million of us are invited to the wedding? Perhaps over a Webcast?
This post really brought a smile to my face. I hope everything goes well for you both. And my advice: spend more on the honeymoon than on the wedding. Worked for me and my geek-girl.
Information wants to be $1.98/lb.
Congratulations, CmdrTaco and Kathleen! Have a nice life! :-)
The Official Steve Ballmer Webpage
Contgrats, Taco! Haven't posted in almost a year, but this brought me back.
Here's to many years of happily married geekdom!
Jonathan
Kythe
but id still like to wish you congratulations.
I'd like to see the final count.
Count mine first "congratz."
-- ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space!
If my wife sees this, it'll make my Burger King/Onion Ring proposal look horrible! And just when I finished convincing her that it was what "all the guys" were doing... Shoot!
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
Somebody, post a marriage proposal on Freenet and see who replies. :)
Someone you trust is one of us.
Courtesy hemos' wedding
marotti.com
Very romantic! I'm glad to see someone unafraid to tell the world they're in love. All the best!
subject says it all. blah blah lameness filter yadda yadda crap on toast piss a shingle shit brick donkey bubble.
All the best, man... and don't try to teach her that when you're in bed you either want to sleep or... it's quite sure one _doen't_ want to talk in bed, ever! Well, you have lived together for some time so you should have tried to teach her anyway already, beeing the pessimist I am I guess without success... :-))
GOOD LUCK TO YOU BOTH!
Excellence: Moderate (mostly affected by comments on your karma)
I was wondering why ThinkGeek suddenly let you register for your wedding, and asked what pattern you wanted for your beowulf cluster......
Um, that's all.....
And the brethren went away edified.
Have many happy years!
RFC2119
Kathleen Fent and Cmdr "Rob" Taco
The wedding will be broadcast as streaming media over a wireless T3 link from the home network of Hemos, who has graciously, if unknowingly, offered the hoSPITality of his home. The ceremony will be performed by a JP, offending everybody, but offending everybody EQUALLY.
As a sign of their approval of this solemn event, the families of the happy couple have generously allowed them the satisfaction of paying for their own arrangements.
To insure that the guests feast on their favorite foods, the happy couple have decided to make it a pot-luck. Bring a covered dish! This means you! Guests are invited to feast on all the food they can bring, in a sumptuous atmosphere including: genuine plastic cutlery, dishes made of the finest paper and a wine so good, it comes in a box.
The wedding will be semi-formal and the reception semi-informal. The bride and groom will exchange matched rings - twice. (Something old, something gnu...) The token rings will be made by Hemos, a close, personal friend, and the flowers will be provided by CowboyNeal, a less close, more impersonal friend. Music will be borrowed from the top bands in the world, via mp3. (You got a problem with that?) Suspence will be provived by the bride's mother, who may or may not attend.
FEEL the tension as the in-laws meet for the FIRST TIME!
SEE the happy couple nervuously approach their STATE OF WEDDED BLISS!
WATCH as people you know dress in FUNNY CLOTHES and ACT SILLY! (Pants are manditory.)
THRILL to the luxery of FOLDING TABLES AND CHAIRS!
HEAR the bride's mother cry VERY, VERY LOUD!
The happy couple would prefer not to allow their friends, or even their families to drive home drunk, so bring a sleeping bag. (You know who you are.)
(This invitation is covered by the GNU product license.) ---
Alright, it's just a first draft.
=brian
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher... and that is a good thing for any man.
-anonymous
Congratulations! Maybe some day, I'll be lucky enough just to have a g/f that *reads* slashdot :)
I'm waiting for my invitation!
Regards
Aye
By the time /. had UIDs, it was already pretty famous IIRC.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
--Andy Finkel (J. Klass?)
Positive I'm not the first one to post this, but: Taco's Antics make Wired News
Now tomorrow, Wired will probably run an in-depth analysis of WWWuv. Bret Hume (of Fox News probably will have something smartass to say too.
Christopher N Emmick
A good man, a better nerd.
Wishing the two of you many happy years together.
It's worth being modded down to -1 to put in my two bits :-)
Balls. Pure Balls.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of Kathleen Fents!
:)
Uh... wait... that'd probably violate several federal laws (polygamy & cloning).... never mind
Congrats Taco!
Congrats
So, should every geek in the world simaltaneously show up for the wedding, making it impossible to actually get the thing done?
-Miko
Miko O'Sullivan
When the men in labcoats are packing up the internet into boxes and putting it all away in warehouses with poor lighting, and choosing a few, pertinent pieces of it to put on display in the shiny museum, this epic post will be one of the items on display.
So, when I take my grandkiddies to see the exhibition "The 'Net'", I want to be able to point at the 2000 pages of text from this one post and say "See that... I posted that, I was part of it too. Now go and get me some prune juice little Timmy."
Rob & Kathleen, congratulations. Create many happy little nerdlettes and make the world a better, smarter place.
Simon
You have completely stole my thunder, Congrats, now I will have to think of soething even geekier for when I propose next year.
Fortunately, I've yet to see an outlandish proposal (billboard displays, newspaper ads, etc.) fail, and this was no exception.
Was at a hockey game one night and the traditional using-the-arena-scoreboard thing came up. The couple was shown, the guy kneeled down, and showed the ring. She put her hand over her mouth, stared at it for a few seconds, SHOOK HER HEAD, and ran off. I believe it was even on TV, but I can't remember.
The camera cut away real quick so we didn't see the guy upset.
Congrats ;]
I was browsing it yesterday, but never realised I would be a part of it. Thanks a lot!
If you two are reading this, have a great life together.
"You know you don't act like a scientist, you're more like a game show host." Dana Barret
Hey Rob and Kathleen, I wish you both the BEST, and truly hope that you two can make the commitment work over the long haul.
It takes a lot of work to keep a relationship alive, happy, and sustainable, I hope that you can make it last many, many, years.
BEST WISHES!!!
If it don't GO... chrome it. ~ Frank Banks
Today is my three year anniversary with my girlfriend, and I hope your girl is as great as she is! Congratulations, and Here's wishing you a Happy Marriage!
sumerik
I want to live forever, Or die trying, is that too much to ask?
Now, is she going to be Mrs. Taco? (or Mrs. Fent-Taco?) I guess you realize that she has just been promoted to Admiral...
--Storm
see subject
a Token Ring? Perhaps a Tolkien Ring?
Sorry all, I had to write it.
Hey, Rob, congratulations!
/.ers know (or may know a bit of), the first year of my marriage was less than fun. My mom dies two weeks after we get hitched. Three and a half months later, *I* almost died! That, of course, is Slashdot history. I'm doing a LOT better now... :-)
;-D
;-) Keep the long term in mind, stay the course, 1000 points of light (pixels?), etc.
As many
In fact, my wife and I are expecting a little something...
Rob: My only advice to you is to love her, respect her, and, have fun! It will be a lot of work, quite possibly more work than you've ever done for anything in your life. Hopefully, things will go well, and you'll pull through the hard times. My investment banker always talks about having a "long term perspective". That's true for marriage as well as investing.
Good luck, and have fun!
- Jason, a.k.a.
-- haaz.
stupid dork, made her cry! good luck w/ ur wife, be happy, be healthy.
have u thoug of kids names yet??? how about atilde, splat, dash, ampersand. hehe sorry had to be said
Lizard "Never let them set limits on your mind!"
... they're all carrying it.
. html
:)
ZDNet: http://zdnet.com.com/2110-11-837844.html
Wired: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50428,00
C|Net: http://news.com.com/2100-1023-837794.html
Keep the comments coming, people, this story's almost made the top ten.
got standards? --- http://www.w3.org/
Come on people, a thousand more posts and this will make the hof!
PS. What's so lame about a lot of exclamation points? I think they're called for here :)!
Seeing all those daft buggers playing marbles on ice, frenetically scrubbing away to get the stains out, roaring their commands gave me a lift. Ah the pottyness of it all and now this, can it get any better? Go /. go.
Good luck and congrats, maybe you will bring a new geek into existence.
Peter.
It's called an elephant's trunk whereas it is in fact, an elephant's nose, a nose by any other name would smell as sweet
... else I wouldn't be able to wish you the best of everything. Well done! :-)
Just a few more posts, and this article goes into the slashdot hall of fame. Yet another bonus of running a web site, you can be a cyber pimp.
-- the computer doesn't want any beer, no matter how much you think it does. NEVER, EVER feed your computer beer.
Many other females might prefer the "traditional" medthod of proposing, but I liked this way best.
:)
... in all, a kindler, gentler Slashdot, none of this bachelor-suited tough talk we've been having.
"medthod"?? They ARE a perfect match.
Coming in June to Slashdot:
News for HouseHusbands: Stuff They Want
Your Dinner Online
Ask Mrs. Taco
His-and-Hers Microsoft Licenses
Love the Emacs Way
How to Build Quieter Computers in Prettier Colors?
will this story make in the hall of fame?
Congratulations to both of you!
I hope you tonnes of luck and happiness.!
I wish you both the best on your marriage. Congradulations. :)
~~ Behold the flying cow with a rail gun! ~~
And good luck!
/. please!
Let's not have your honeymoon on
Rega1rds,
Daniel
Something intruiging...
You lucky dog, you!
Hey, im a n00b at slashdot, so mod me up =]
all i gotta say is, congratulations, and best wishes to you both, may you both lead a wonderful, and nerdy life together!!
Just had to add my best wishes, and try to get this the most-posted-to story ever. 1500 posts and rising...
Good luck to the pair of you.
K.
Why doesn't the gene pool have a life guard?
But I am mainly posting to see this story make it to the Hall Of Fame.
Te luciste, maestro taco. Toda la felicidad del mundo, para ambos, y un tequila a su salud!
Damnit, I submitted this story last week!
....
/. stories, too.
Ah, well, always the bridesmaid, never the bride
Needless to say, congrats, guys. We expect to see the wedding ceremony played out on
Just to get this post into the slashdot hall of fame i'm posting this comment, hopefully it'll get past the lameness filter.
Congrats Taco, best wishes.
The "proposal-bot" was originally intended to get a wife... or two, via IRC.
I never thought that those few lines of code I typed back in college would really affect people's lives the way that it has.
Please discontinue use of that script and go on with your lives.
- Signed: Anonymous Coward.
ps. congrats to Taco and Chick-Taco.
I wish you both a happy life together.
Wow, I should not post when knackered.
Congratulations to you both!
Best wishes, you two. A very pleasant surprise in today's Slashdot.
-----
PGP Key ID 0xCB8FF658
What an amazing way to propose! Congratulations, to the both of you! (Everyone, post! This is far more important than blowing up the Taliban, we need this in the hall of fame!)
Well you just ruined that episode for uk readers. Luckily I am up to date with the US because of p2p networks ;)
graspee, UK
Once again: congrats!
sulli
RTFJ.
here
Congratulations you two.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
http://sarcasta.net/graphics/randk.jpg
or
http://sarcasta.net/graphics/cleavage.JPG
I wonder how many replies it will take to kill MySQL... and to think, I was at Linux world listening the Slashdot team explaining how wonderful MySQL was..
Anyways, congratulations, not that anyone will ever read this message at the bottom of 1600+ other ones!
:)
Congrats!!
Is this the birth of a new section where users can propose to their others online? I see a huge willyoumarryme.com IPO in the future.
"The similarities of sysadmins and drug dealers: both measure stuff in K's, and both have users."
Congratulations !
I never met anybody from /., but maybe someday, I might!
Either way......CONGRATULATIONS is always in order for such a posting!
I wish you both a very long and rewarding life together!!
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER!
Spock, OUT!
73!
206.39.38.2, DDN-BLK-36, DOD NET INFO CENTER. 800.365.3642 206.36.0.0-206.39.255.255 NET RANGE.
You are a t00l.
# \rm -fr ~kathleen/
Always remember, be gentle with her clitoris and g-spot, clip those nails first, use plenty of baby oil, go slow!!!! Those pornos are all fake. go slow! Read the entire kama sutra and understand it!
Congratulations Taco & Kathleen! Hope you will be together forever.
Well, Taco, your marriage proposal just made it into the Slashdot HOF (1183 comments and counting)! Congratulations on that, too!
On the other hand, I just hope proposing on Slashdot isn't the beginning of a trend, or the story headlines will read like this in a year:
Mona Shnozenbutt Read This Story Posted by Geek12345 on Thursday February 14, @01:15PM
Gretchen Nosehair Read This Story Posted by Tr3kk13l0v3R on Thursday February 14, @03:34PM
Luther H. Puttgrass III Read This Story Posted by KuteGeekette on Thursday February 14, @03:45PM
New Linux Kernel Version Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday February 14, @04:00PM
Britney Tonedef Read This Story Posted by l337h4xx0rr on Thursday February 14, @04:02PM
...you get the idea
I hope you'll be happier than me playing Grand Theft Audo 3 on my PS2 (i.e. VERY happy!) :-)
Congrats to the both of you and Taco, you are far too much of a geek.
Yeah, I had a sig once; I got bored of it.
Marriage is fun, satisfying, and painfully annoying all at the same time. Welcome to the most interesting experience of your life!
And most of all, CONGRATULATIONS!
Read my stuff.
Chris
Hey man, we're all a part of this! I feel like part of the family!
Add my congratulations to the list o' plenty.
Keep on posting people, we've already made the Hall of fame
And here's a -5 redundant: Congrats Taco!
"Democracy is three wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
'Definately the news story of the Day' Geeks in love, how beatiful.
Congratulations, If you need flower arrangments I know a guy who does them in Binary.
You could of made the proposal geekier by encoding it in RSA and having her create a beowulf cluster running Distributed.net in order to decrypt the message. Then, and only then would she be worthy of the TACO!!!
Harder.. Better.. Faster.. Stronger
*poing poing poing*
There! SEE! One of you Slashdot boys is not single, bitter or miserable. It's possible!!!
-- INTX Grouch. http://www.midnightblue.net
Kudos to you, from someone with 19+ years at the side of my sweetheart. Marriage has been the most educational experience of my life (That, coming after 11+ years in college, and a Ph.D in theoretical physics) I'm certian you'll have fun.
What's another name for pirate treause?
If we are, I just hope that the invitation includes tickets to fly there for the ppl living far away in different countries :)
:)
Anyways, Congrats to u both
Good job man, now tell how to do it to the rest of us!
Thanks,
Travis
Now if only cnn.com would would do the same...
"To pass through the jungle; silence, courtesy, ferocity, as the occasion demands." -- Kamau, "Proper Passage"
So, is all of /. getting invited to the wedding? :)
On the whole, I find that I prefer Slashdot posts to twitter ones because I don't get limited to 140 chars before
I know this has been said, oh, about 1200 times before, but many congratulations to you both! A couple of posters have posted the secret to a happy marriage, so I figured I'd give out the one that my wife and I keep in mind. Love, honor and negotiate! Hey, it's worked for 10 years now!
Congratulations again!
Purrr!
Windows is the Acme of computing -- in the Wile E. Coyote sense.
Congratulations. Will the marriage be on /. as well?
Just adding my $0.02 to the comments.
Congrats Taco, I only hope that when I find someone I can propose in such a grandiose fashion.
Where are we going, and why are we in this hand cart?
shouldn't that be 'womAn' with an *a* ;p
Something old (CP/M)
:)
Something GNU,
Something borrowed (C#, from Java)
Something blue (IBM)
Best wishes flood from geeks to geeks,
Looks like this topic'll be going for weeks!
@>--,--`-- A rose for the bride
*Also throws punchcard chad confetti for added geekiness*
Congrats and wish you both all the best. I know you'll both be very happy.
What else can I say? :)
Many Congratulations to you both. May your lives be as happy and fulfilling as you both wish them to be.
;-)
(Ok, this is not the first post on this theme, but redundancy is good here
trurl
He completely retyped it at least 15 times. :-)
[I rehearsed what I was going to say probably every ten minutes for about four months. On the bus. In the shower. In class. During exams. Etc. Etc. Etc.]
News for Geeks in Austin, TX
I just had to give my good wishes.
:)
Can I come to the wedding?
- Cary
I know there are a hell of a lot of posts, I hope this one adds another 1 to that number that surprises you both :).
Subject says it all. Congratulations Rob and Kathleen! And best wishes!
"I may not have morals, but I have standards."
All these great responses show that this site is worth it, hermano.
Congrats to both of yaz!
She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue.
Can't see much of a trouble with that myself, but it was tempting to say it. Anyway
Congratulations for you both !!!
Gerry -- #include "ea!.h"
:) Best wishes to you both.
Now that you're engaged, it's time to remember the old saying: "Children in the back seat cause accidents; accidents in the back seat cause children."
My life's goal is to get a score of +3!
Best wishes to the both of you.
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." -- Plato (427?-347? BC)
I agree. That is the funniest post I've ever seen ever on Slashdot or anywhere else ever.
And someone said that to me once, about one of my posts. But it wasn't as funny as this.
Best wishes.
I'm sure this has been asked already like a hundred times, but I haven't read through the 1600 posts, will the wedding be broadcast on the web??
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(0, redundant)
Best of luck!
.
post my own 'me too' message. Congratulations.
We all know that crap is king
Give us dirty laundry!
GO CMDTACO! happy engagement! hope the wedding goes well... tell us when it is!
May your first child be a nerdy child
if (proposal_response==1)
ring++;
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one " -Albert Einstein
Speaking as a Married Geek!! Its the best thing you can do!
Congrats!!
Dont settle for Shampoo... Demand real poo
...or at least, we will, when the hall of fame updates.
Congrats, Taco!
this is your dad, you are a nerd. the end
Chicks _DO_ dig unix
Here's a picture of CMdrTaco (aka Rob Malda). Look a little more to the right.
Congratulations! I hope this last sentence makes it original.
Well, seeing as every other slashdotter is replying to this story, I figured I might as well also - Congratulations!
One thought that's just a little frightening is the possibility of little CmdrTacos running around (LtnCmdrTaco?)
Anyways, best luck to both of you!
Posts >= -1 : 1620
;)
Posts >= 2 : 444
This must be some sort of record. Taco my boy, that was a Really Bad Idea (TM)
Hey Congratulations to both of you.
Excellent, excellent proposal. Have a terrific life!
Soon you'll be needing to stock up on that ThinkGeek baby-wear!
Congrats, Rob and Kathleen, and best wishes to you both! :-)
"It take 9 months to bear a child, no matter how many women you assign to the job."
Since it seems that this reply forum will be a kind of 'guestbook' at the reception, I think I'll leave a little ditty.
Congratulations to both of you
-shpoffo
Congradulations.
$home =~ s/work/play/gi; nice -20 run $home;
Nothing more than that. Congratulations. Marriage is just a great thing. Enjoy.
--
bgfay
Yeah, I'm as old as my UID would suggest.
What happens if it's something like say, they're at a massively public place, but he still does the down on one knee and a ring thing.
My example would be guy sets up a deal with a local baseball stadium (MLB or Farm teams, either would work) and sometime arround the 7th inning stretch, he gets up to "go get something". Next thing she knows, he's walking out onto the field, onto the pither's mound, microphone in hand and th ebig screen camera is focused on him. Then he get's down on one knee, hold's up a ring (even if it will be hard to see) and proposes there.
Does that make him a snivling coward (for doing it infront of a crowd) or a real man (for doing it on one knee with a ring)?
T Money
World Domination with a plastic spoon since 1984
I better add my 2 cents.
Congrats!
Cheers,
Mike Agar
www.jmagar.com
-
Congrats man
and what a way to do it...
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act 4, Scene 2
Congrats!
Besides, is this story setting a new record on the number of comments?
delete free(system.gc);
I started by saying that there are some things a man has to keep private. - didn't work
I tried explaining that I would be violating the trust of my clients - didn't work
I told her that when the bad guys or space aliens came she would be safer saying that she didn't know the password - didn't work
oh well - no one told me that mother-in-laws get free tech support either.
Ihe Invisible Pink Unicorn commands me (*I am but a humble believer*) To send best wishes to Rob and Kathleen.
The Invisible Pink Unicorn (*may her incompetence at spotting Pascal comments ever increase*)
May Your Tribe Increase!
Never let the Purple Oyster of Doom sully your happiness.
Taco, takes major balls to do what you did today. This gives hope to nerds everywhere. Myself included. A toast to Rob and Kathleen, may they have many long years of happiness together
Think For Yourself. Question Authority.
keep up the good work alan
Congrats.
Though no one is going to see my message (because there are too many), but I still want to reply to this because it is truely a lovely story.
I really hope that someday I can do something like this to my girlfriend.
Best wishes to you Rob and Kathleen. Let us know when the big day is. In the meantime, we'll mod down the goatse.cx and flamer trolls.
If you've been together for so long, what is marriage other than a liability anyway? Isn't marriage a religous thing?
Have you read my journal today?
I was concerned that Slashdot's servers were going to have a problem with all the traffic for this article... It's about damn time Slashdot got Slashdotted :-)
Best wishes for even more fun, love, and trippy 3 am discoveries in life!
Cheers,
-Pete
PS. I've included your wedding present below:
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I have nothing interesting to say. Certainly nothing interesting enough to top what you've done today. So just bask in the moment.
:)
Besides, at least you didn't ask her with an e-mail. That would have been low. This is just... well, sweet but embarrassing. But that'll be your problem tomorrow.
Best wishes for a lifetime together!
Well I hope you guys are totally happy! :)
Congrats
SJ
Killa on the Loose
Congradutions.
:-)
Must be nice to have a girlfriend who checks you website every 15 minutes
Best Wishes to the both of you.
Let me be the first(?) to say, Congratulations!
That was a great way of proposing.
Best of luck to both of you!
Oh, and congratulations to the pair of ya from MSBob
Your pizza just the way you ought to have it.
User #548795 sends his congrats to the soon to be newly weds. This'll probably never be read, but at least I got in my congrats. And in the off chance that it does get read, good luck!
T Money
World Domination with a plastic spoon since 1984
Anyways, here is your 1700th (approx.) "Congrats!"
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
Wishing you both the best of love and happiness for all time to come. :)
libertarianswag.com
I guess I wanted to chime in with my contratulations!
Though we have never met, I admire what you did. Excellent work.
May you have many happy years together.
"May the road rise to meet you, and the wind be at your back."
Curiosity was framed; ignorance killed the cat. -- Author unknown
Have a happy life together!!!!
Oh, and nice way to propose, CmdrTaco!!!!
No, seriously, I just come here for the articles.
:) Congrats and all the best to you!
Well Rob, life is starting to get real now. Well wishes and advice have been heaped upon you to the sum of over 1500 messages now; most of what can be said has been said, so I will keep it brief.
There will be some majorly hairy fights the first year. Just remember that you love her, and that it's forever, and that no matter how mad you get you've got this person for the rest of your life.
It'll be good, it'll be bad, but mostly you'll get laid regularly.
- Rev.I fucking hate you Cmdrtaco.
Congratulations!
All the best to you and Kathleen.
That was great. What a fantastic way to propose. Congratulations to both of you!
--Rick
--Rick "If it isn't broken, take it apart and find out why."
Yet another Congradulations Post.
-Hoagie
I'd be surprised if you took the time to read all responses on this thread - but I do believe it is the thought that counts. I'm delighted on your behalf and I wish you both the very best!
Ok, for the man who needs a one-of-a-kind wedding ring:
The One Ring
Eh? Why not?
Congrats!
"It remains to be seen if the human brain is powerful enough to solve the problems it has created." Dr. Richard Wallace
I can see it now... every geek on the web is going to be proposing on Slashdot now...
Perhaps now would be a good time to implement (-1 Cliched)...
...but it's well worth the effort. Best wishes to you both!
Congrats,
Best of wishes.
Rules of Conduct:
#1 - The DM is always right.
#2 - If the DM is wrong, see rule #1
I believe Slashdot is "news for nerds", not "nerds showing how pathetic their lives are"
You made me cry aswell :)
Love still exists. Hope you two last forever.
Just remember to keep *working* on your love, like you'd work on a buggy bit of code that needs to be perfect.
:)
CmdrTaco,
I've been married 22 years! It's hard work, but worth it!
Btw, who's taking over Slashdot now? Heh, heh! Just kidding (I hope!).
I saw some of the pictures on her site and was thinking that Rob is kinda cute.
Where can I get one of those?
My dingo ate your honor student.
very cool.
congratulations from Australia.
I'll think of a funny sig later on
Serves me right for taking a day off work (where I read Slashdot every free minute I get! ;) ). Congrats Rob! Married life is so kewl. But one warning: Sex is a tool....her tool. Anytime she wants you to do something, anything, all she has to do is CUT OFF THE PUSSY! :) Once you do what she want you can have the pussy again! ;)
Gorkman
The number of replies posted to this story is about to pass 1700. Is that a Slashdot record?
What a way to ask congrats
I wish you and Kathleen the very best! :)
Hey this is a perfect excuse....you could record a episode of geeks in space as the wedding, and then you could post a ground control with everyone's well wishes being sent in. Oh and one make sme wonder: Do scomputer stores have registeries?? Heh heh. Congrats again!
Gorkman
Nah, it's still got a ways to go. I'm sure it's just a matter of time tho.
Just keep watching the hof...
(Oh, by the way, congrats Taco!)
In congratulations, redundancy can be a good thing, eh?
Congratulations Rob & Kathleen!
Hey Rob - where's the gift registry? Or would you just like us to purchase everything available on ThinkGeek and send it over...?
Can you imagine a beow^H^H^H^H geekier way to propose? (except perhaps writing it in the source code and waiting for her to check it...)
... that's all i wrote...
I wanted to congratulate you earlier, but I had moderated this story from my work account. Now that I'm home I can congratulate you by posting a comment.
Bringing irony to the Slash-masses
Just wanted to say it.
Man... I envy you. I just wanted to give you the best of wishes.
Congratulations to you Rob and Kathleen.
Is this possibly the most comments ever on a Slashdot story? Well, I thought I'd just add to the tally. BTW, Congratulations!
http://www.askthevoid.com
Congrats Taco and Kathleen.
Damn. Now I have to come up with something more original.
Question is have you two actually met yet? Because the online marriage thing has been done already. Anyways...just trying to find humor in every aspect I can.....
Congrats!
can i see this bitch naked? thanks.
I see that Kathleen has this mission statement posted on her site. To quote:
This is the same site, you will note, where she confirms that she said yes.
Well, at least she's sure to not forget her proposal. My better half was so overwhelmed that it's just a blank. She takes my word for it that she said "Yes!"
Congratulations to both of you!
-"Zow"
That was so cute.
I've always wanted to purpose to my lady in the most original way.
Yours will be hard to beat.
Good luck to you both.
I'm a big retard who forgot to log out of Slashdot on Mike's computer! LOOK AT ME.
Another solution is to put your main computing location somewhere close to the main living spaces of the living room or the kitchen. In my case, our house is pretty small, and my station is actually in the corner of the kitchen. She cooks a lot (woohoo!) so we spend a lot of time in the same physical space that way.
If I lean over I can see the living room, and be face to face (20 feet away) with my S.O. who's reading or watching the boob tube or something.
So I can share her love/hate of beauty pageants without actually having to watch them :/
Resist the urge to put your computer in a separate room, and instead make it part of the central rooms of the household. It's worked great for me -- I'm online 4 hours every evening, but we're still in sight of each other and I can be right next to her in 5 seconds if necessary.
She cooked me filet mignon tonight ...
One simple rule for its versus it's
... har har har
http://fanblade.dhs.org:27902
just following the crowd and chipping in my one comment... c'mon people! only 822 more comments and this'll be at the top of the hall of fame where it deserves to be! anyways, seriously i wish you two the best of luck...that's quite the girl you've got there taco, treat her well.
-greg
May you and sweety enjoy a long happy life together.
E
Who says geeks aren't romantic! :)
Now I just wish I'd thought to propose to my fiance like that......
Reeve the cat
On another note, does anyone on the Slashdot team drive a silver BMW with the license "Slashcar" or something similar?
Just hope they don't name their first-born Gordito...
(Congrats to both of the happy couple, btw!)
If we did, wouldn't she just yell, "First post!"?
Thus we're just doing everyone a big favor.
Devin Naquin
Go Taco
Some lameness filter trying to prevent this post?
Whats up with that?
The word "than" is used to compare two things. For example, "I hate you more than I hate Osama." The word "then" indicates a sequence or causality. For example, "If I read slashdot then I will get annoyed." In this case you love this woman more THAN life itself, your cat, etc. If she says yes THEN you will be incredibly happy, your cat will no longer hide from you, etc.
... that this is one of the few ways to do it without getting up from the keyboard and getting away with it.
:)
Nifty.
Have fun you too
It'll never happen
love & happiness!
It's not very informative. It's not funny. While it is underrated, it's not that insightful (any idiot knows to say this). While I'm pretty sure I'm not being a troll, I do know that it's very very very very very redundant, in it's own way.
But of course, I would be a fool to not say it, would I not? So I'll say it again:
Congratulations, and I hope you have a great life together!
-James
Isn't it more like the IQ of the dumbest member in the group divided by the number of people in the group?
I wish you and Kathleen a long and happy marriage!
When politicians are involved, everyone loses.
If everyone was invited that would be the first real life slashdotting we could overload the freeways and the airports. Just hope none of the planes crash.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
there has to be a good amount of traffic today.
Oh well, I just wanted to post to make the numbers go up.
Congrats, Taco.
You're a good man, Charlie Brown.
"A plan fiendishly clever in its intricacies"- Homer Simpson
Embarrassing. Double 'r', double 's'.
I also disagree with your use of then. Than is used to be comparative. Then is indicative of expressions of time or timing and consequence.
Might I suggest a more heartfelt and serious way of proposal? What was the diamond on the ring? A penguin shaped imperfect piece of shit bought at the mall last minute? Zales? I doubt Mr. JUBEI machine knows an SI-J from a VVS1-E. You are very heavily 'included,' Malda. Can you think of s shittier and more cliché day to propose, or is Valentine's Day king shit of that Tird Island. She must be a lobotomized retard, otherwise you should have spat upon by your would be spouse.
Hey, loserboi, don't forget to invite Larry Wall to the wedding and write your vows in a Perl Script. Then you can "chomp" down on your cake.
You don't have to be a Kreskin to see the end of this loser elopement ending in the very near future.
This is crap, Malda. If I was an English teacher, and this was a 5 grader's half assed attempt at writing a romantic short story, I'd throw the script back in the kid's face and wonder who dropped him as a kid. This is pathetic. I feel bad for your wife.
congratulations from me.
Boycot? Blackout? Subscriptions?
I don't care!
All the best and much future happiness.
Laugh while you can, monkey boy!
What if she would have said no? Think..."quarter of a million strangers" seeing you get turned down like that...ouch!
But she didn't! Celebrate! Congratz Taco Man
We'll no longer see the Taco-Snotting FAQ, I presume!
Best to ya both...
Well.. what else is there to say except congragulations taco... you're a deserving guy
Will the wedding be webcast?
CoyboyNeal is God
Cmdr -- excellent proposal! Best wishes to Kathleen and you!
...how come there's all this stuff about Jessica on your webpage? I mean if you're going to share this moment with all of us, you really can't expect us not to do a little research about you, right? Or, CmdrTaco, IF THAT IS YOUR REAL NAME, perhaps your webpage is chock full of lies. Maybe you didn't create /. after all.
And here's one of them together
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Gee, it's like they're husband and wife already!
Well last I looked there weren't very many modded down, so I think you two have caught the trolls with their pants up and without their steaming hot grits! A good sign, I reckon.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
You should film the wedding and stream it so we can all watch.
Just like everybody else said . . .
I'm glad no one is working through here with the "-1,redundant" mod points.
Drunken Penguin congratulates and wishes all the best for the two of you! All you need is life fellas! I think I will follow his example some day.
The guy has a friggn point. You don't moderate people down just because they disagree with the majority opinion. God I hate slashdot so much sometimes.
Jordan Bettis
Well according to cmdrtaco.net
...eventually graduation from Holland Christian High School in 1994...
He graduated HS in 94 since he doesn't seem like the kind to skip or be held back a grade that would make him 25-26 (possibly 27 depending on birthdate) years old or somewhere in that ballpark. At anyrate he probably isn't 'under 25' and he's been dating for a long time.
Then again he's been submitting stories tonight so either he submits on a crontab or else things didn't go so hot tonight. That or she's accepts his geekiness -- for now.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Speaking as someone who's about to celebrate his 16th wedding anniversary, I can tell you
... and do exactly what she says !
The Secret of a successful marriage
Make it clear right at the start who is boss
All the best !
Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum videtur (anything said in Latin sounds important)
I was so overcome by happiness for both of you I shot a wad of jizz clear across the room! Of course, looking at pics of Kathleen helped.
Just to echo the already-much-repeated thought,
:)
congrats!!!
Kudos to guys who are original.
-= Adienne =-
Congratulations and good luck and all that!
and good luck!
Will work for bandwidth
Kathleen and Rob, congradulations! Nice to know nerds can find love too :)
ANYway... it's nice to see so many people are interested in this... it's already in the top 5 number of posts. I wonder how high it will go...
--Paladin128
Lex orandi, lex credendi.
Taco;
You should have dumped her last night!
Don't you listen to Tom Leykis?
And there is even a poll about online proposals. tres funnyB 7211ACD6DC8ECA256B6100059A17!OpenDocument&NavArea= Home&SelectedCategoryName=News
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/idg2.nsf/AllPCW/B4C
Good luck to you two ! Be blessed in your life together ! And way to go Slashdot to get the message out !!!
HAPPY Valentines to you !!!
It was so cute...
Good luck!
This post, while not adding to the discussion in any useful way, is just trying to get it to #1.
Hell, I had tears in my eyes.
Hooray for geek love!!!
-GribI hope you two co-exist in peaceful harmony forever.
Cacophanus
http://cacophanus.net/
super geeky but also very touching.
congratulations!
Get married at the next linuxworld in the Church of Emacs before Saint IGNUcius. A free wedding, where your vows should start with the Confession of the Faith : There is no system but GNU, There is no other from here on to death than you in my life.
how many wedding gifts do they expect to sell at thinkgeek?
--
making up good sigs is a hard thing to do.
I found this page on google, and as syntax highlighted a 'fent' is apparently a request for information on a file.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
9 months from now..
:)
aaahhhh! noooo!! I'm sorry! it was a joke!
Congrats CmdrTaco. Best wishes to you and your fiancèe
Rob I wish you two the best of luck, it's good to see happiness is still out there waiting to be found!
Well done guys
yes, as indicated by the bananna icon, Kuro5in.org catagorized this as in the topic of "Funny" (and MLP, Mindless Link Propogation).
/.?
HERE's the article itself.
...not as popular as it is here (only 63 comments so far), but then again don't most k5'ers have a grudge against
Use my userscript to add story images to Slashdot. There's no going back.
Make sure to do a full Slashdot style report on the honeymoon. Let us virgins know what its like!
And hopefully, it will not be under "Quickies"
the most romantic thing I ever read on the net.
nor i.
this man is in love, and doesn't care much who knows it except in one case: he wants the woman he loves to know it.
10 / 10 for romance.
minus several hundred for discretion.
commander, that rocks. with such an auspicious beginning, you two may not need this, but just in case:
_good_luck_
freaq
strictly harmless, sometimes normal, and very impressed with humans today.
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5 Star Mouth * * *
Congratulations. Since this is a rather late post... Belatedly.
I am thinking that to post on slashdot is about the best way to get rapid congratulation messages in bulk. Good plan!
Make it good.
"... every time I open my mouth some of my stupid escapes!"
Congratulations! Not much more to it, I guess?
Et congratulations
The news is spreading far and wide: the Reg has it as a story!
Once more, goodd luck to you both, may your union be a happy one :)
Yes ! Congratulations !
And I had to be offsite all day today. Congratulations, you two! It's work, but it's sooooo worth it.
So, when are you expecting little ones?
Whatever happened to JonKatz?
Congratulations, all the best of luck to you !
Ok, I'm definitely willing to send you a few bucks for your honeymoon. And I already know where: Redmond, WA.
That's probably the most original proposal I have seen.
I don't think there's proof that they've actually had sex (I heard that somne people even wait till after they are married). Tho it seems Rob has gotten some pussy at one stage.
--
enterfornone - logging in for a change
Well done! Congratulations!
congratulations!!! that was so cute. . .
(added to those of about 1500 other people, allowing for trolls and repeats.)
Very very lovable girl.
;D
Congrats Commander!.. This will increase live expectatives for all geeks! hahahaha...
Good luck Feen!, you get a good man
1 saludo
Tei
-Woof woof woof!
I wish you everlasting happiness in your new life.
Kathleen, you're a lucky girl.
Treat him well until he gives you the root password, then run and post it at notslashdot.org </kidding>.
Congratulations you two !
Bill Gates Has No Penis.
this has to happen...
am i gifted or what?
-- "It's tough to run with both feet stuck in your mouth" - Zoe's evil side
CONGRATS!!
Not only a geek, but licensed to marry people in Ohio. If you feel like getting to CowTown to tie the knot, just let me know.
And congrats....
Adventure is worthwhile in itself. - Amelia Earhart
say no, when you meet him in real life
Just to add my voice to all the others, congratulations to both of you, hope you will be very happy together. In the middle of ignoring Valentine's day, this was a really touching moment.
All I can say is "Wow, that is the geekiest proposal I ever witnessed!"
Still it comes from the heart. I hope you'll have a wonderfull wedding with a nice little webcam, so we on the other side of the World can watch it.
Cheers to you both
-- MicAttAck
Religon is an insult to human dignity.
I wish you both a very, very happy time and as much luck as one (two) can get, since luck is the most single important thing to have. You know, all those people on Titanic were rich and healthy and everything...
We really need to knock that one down out of the hof, this one is getting pretty close to 4th.
I don't think it'll touch the WTC stuff though.
Well, after looking at Kat's pic, I realised that atleast some of us geeks do have such pretty gf's and all.
Sadly I'm very dry here in that field.
Keep up the good work Taco!
"As the saying goes, once you're married, your wife then runs as a daemon"
But congratulations, Taco. I wish you many happy years together.
Congratulations and good luck!
Congratulations CmdrTaco and Kathleen!
You're making me cry...
Congratulations to both of you.
congrats
I just had to say that as another young geek who is going to be proposing (albeit it wont approach this in cleverness or mod points) Im truly happy for you
Eustace
Hope you have a wonderful wedding and that the love between you two survives the chains of marriage ;)
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Congratulations and best wishes from this long-time lurker, first-time poster. I'm really happy for you. :-)
Congrats, guys! I saw you guys on The Screensavers last night! I hope you both have a great rest of your days together!
Congratulations, Rob and Kathleen!
:-)
I would like to tap into the collective knowledge of my fellow slashdotters and congratulate the happy couple in as many languages as possible.
In this case I mean spoken languages, though I strongly suspect someone is going to submit something in Perl or Python anyway.
I shall start with Welsh:
Llongyfarchiadau atoch! (Congratulations to y'all)
Cheers,
-Q
Roses are red
Slashdot is green
Propose again
And order a new machine
W0000000000000000ttttttttttttttt
Hurry up and join the club Taco
SpaceKow
http://01motors.com
Free Web based FTP
Ok,
I hereby order you to host your wedding on a
Linux server.
SpaceKow
Free Web based FTP
Congratulations! May your married life be long and happy.
your still a bitch but congrats on getting the drugs to work
This'll never last it out on the Hall of Fame without a few more posts!
This has doubtless been said hundreds of times in the above 2,000 comments, but...
Congratulations, Kathleen & Rob! Cheers!
There is a spellbook here; eat it? [ynq]
No ! You don't !
And if we are to post enough to this article to push it up in the hof rankings, we better get to work.
Where are the crap flooders when you need 'em ?
As everyone has already said, it was beautiful. As a married man, I must say a geek out did my method of a proposal!!! I don't think there's much I could write to justify writing, so I'll just say HAZAH! CONGRATS! Damn, that was KEWL!!
I just want to congratulate the happy couple and wish them all the best. As it happens, I'm getting married in August and I know you both must be looking forward to a wonderful future. :)
Hooray!!
--
John
-- John Truong
Add me to the list - go for, it, man, and don't worry that she can read everything you do at work every day from anywhere in the world...
I just wanna see this get top billing in the HOF. Awwe, innadant sweet.
For the first time since they saw HAL get disconnected in 2001 for the first time, geeks everywhere are crying.
:)
Grats Malda
A day late, but congratulations not the less.
Since I'm too cheap for a card...
A: None. The Universe spins the bulb, and the Zen master merely stays out of the way.
Just another little voice in the crowd:
congratulations and may happiness and love forever remain in you life.
"We live in our minds, and existance is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality" Ayn Rand
Congrats kidz. :)
OK, It was not so embarassing and still could do a lot of good for this communit. After all, you two look cool after all these years in front of a CRT, threatening the stablishment under false names...
Best wishes, and "be it forever while it lasts", in the words of Vinicius de Morais.
{100% paranoia is not enough when you are 99.9% right}
only a couple hundred or so more to go until this gets up to 3rd on the HoF...keep pushing it
Who Wants the name Kathleen Taco?
The good news... /. is on Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) mod_perl/1.25 mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a on Linux
Slight version differences, with /. adding the gzip stuff, but wow, it looks like they'll get along when modifying server software. Not too many of us out there can make that claim!
Congrats to both of you!
fent.net is running Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) Debian/GNU mod_perl/1.21_03-dev on Linux
/me tries to bump the post up on the HoF...
But, I just wanted to offer the same thing that's been said a million times already. Congratulations. Your site has been responsible for making my life better, and to see that your life will be batter makes me happy. Congratulations, and good luck.
Dozings.com -- Its kinda funny... If you're as crazy as me.
And the world goes on... Nerd starts Slashdot, nerd gets married, nerd gets child, nerd becomes a boring common man.
Oh. Bad. Real bad.
Cesar Cardoso can be found at cesar at zyakannazio dot eti dot br (or at least I believe so)
You know what that is ... congratulations you two!
20721
You are most definitely NOT a dumbass to get married. Enjoy!
When I think of a cute South Park tune to post, I will ... for now, congrats to the happy couple!
Congrats kids!
Need more posts on this story... Not as if I have anything better to do.
First words I heard when the bus pulled into Fort Jackson.
No truer ever spoken!
Run for it now Taco while you still have the chance!!
Miss Cleo
(PS Taco&Sarcasta, luvya. And ringbarer, very nice.)
Geeks have happy endings too! =)
Congratulations from me too.
Yes I know it's a "me 2" post, but you have to do it in this case.
Remember to practices safe hex (and maybe one day you'll get good at it)
My best wishes and may your future togeather be happy.
[Science] is one of the very few things that raises human life a little above farce and gives it the grace of tragedy.
wishing you the very best! :-)
Congratulations! I wish you two the very best!
yes yes, it must go on
Rob,
You've never met me, and probably never will. I'm quite grateful for this source of information which is the proximate cause of at least $40,000 going straight into my pockets.
Good luck, and I wish you the best of happiness.
hanzie
********* sig: If you don't like the law, get filthy stinking rich, and buy a better one.
I'll help !
It seems that the crapflooders aren't though.
Where are they when you need them ?
Can't let it stop this close to 2000!
Walt
This post is dedicated to the day when the Star Faction story disappears from the Hall of Fame.
Well done, best wishes for the future.
/.er's eyes!
youve brought a tear to every
congratulations.
First, let me say Mazel Tov. All the best for a happy life together.
Now, since I don't read Slashdot every day, I was fortunate to come across this story. I only found it through Rob's journal entry, which showed up as a message to me on the front page. Let this be a lesson... make slashdot editors your friend, and read their journal entries when they are posted.
Reality has a liberal bias
Dear Rob,
Thanks to the rather zealous readership you've attracted, I think we all have a good idea of who you're marrying, and what she looks like. Truly a beautiful woman, and a sharp mind, too. Congratulations are definitely in order!
You certainly had to expect this would generate a lot of traffic here, but who imagined the reaction from the press?!? I was amazed to see Wired cover it... and The Register, and MSNBC (posting the C-Net story), etc! Geez Rob, you're a public icon!
Now that things have settled a bit and your proposal "story" has risen to be well-seated in the Hall of Fame (currently #5, and close to being #4!)... allow me to review the coverage your proposal generated:
- Cupid's Bull's-Eye on Nerd Site
- Slashdot editor proposes on front page
- News for Nerds: Will you marry me? (Cnet) or the same thing on MSNBC
- Geek pops the question online (ZDnet)
- A Google search on "Kathleen Fent" turns up 77 hits -- The first two being your proposal and its' place in the Hall of Fame, and nearly all of the rest referring to your proposal!
My wife (who happens to be a redhead as well!) thinks the way you proposed was really sweet. She wants to steal Sushi, too... but that's something else entirely. Our congratulations on your engagement, and my wife and I wish the both of you a long, happy and healthy life together!The co-founder of the popular Slashdot website proposes to his girlfriend on Valentine's Day. One reader wonders if the marriage would be an open-source arrangement. By Michelle Delio.
"Valentine's Day special" 14 February 2002 4:22pm
"...America's great minds of today, teaching America's great minds of tomorrow. Poor bastards." -- A Beautiful Min
Ditto.
Ibid.
See above.
I doubt we'll pass it though.
That's the problem with crapflooders these days, no dedication.
... on Slashdot, with every geek in Christendom ready to throw their pixelated confetti ;)
Congratulations....that is awesome!
Yeah, I bet you a nickel Taco has been really looking forward to pushing The Star Fraction off the hof once and for all.
Taco, let me know if you need my current address to send the invitation :-)
-Pez
The word "Pointless" has questionable usefulness in the context of posting on slashdot.
Nevertheless, I salute your dedication !
Should I stop posting ?
But I'm so close ! All this anti-star faction work will have gone to waste !
And my buddies are making fun of me on IRC . . . I tried to trick them into making fun of me here, but they saw through my plot to get them to post here and save me some work.
Actually, if you think about it, that phenomenon explains a lot of stupid political policies.
Has enough time gone by that I can use the fast IP again ?
W000000000T!!!!!!!!!
Just trying to reach the top of the Hall of Fame
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
- Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Just curious whether people will still be posting to this article a week from now. Opinions?
Last post, and on top of that, the first last post. Huzzah!
Fuck it
That we really do beat the Star Fraction Story.
Can't let a script be outclassing Taco's marriage !
Yet Another Congrats To Rob And Kathleen Comment
FWIW, as I write this, it will only take 60 more comments to get this story to #3 in the HOF. So here's a comment just to boost the story a little closer to that total; and since it's a completely content-free post, I'll waive my +1 for it :)
:)
I already posted congratulations, but I'll say it again anyway
Congratulations!
Stuart.
As soon as she shows him who the boss is, now. ;)
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
For over 5 months now, the top 3 spots in the Hall of Fame have been occupied by tales of war, death and destruction. It's the least we could do as Citizens of Earth to wedge a little love in there. Keep up the flood!
Who made you the gbd of this thread ?
Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has temporarily been disabled. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner. If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down. If you think this is unfair, please email jamie@mccarthy.vg with your MD5'd IPID and SubnetID, which are "c0a6cc9f1e3e345c55497070d304ebe9" and "3da9096a7d9e145d9abb6a5ea5c17cb7" and (optionally, but preferably) your IP number "66.68.40.97" and your username "RGRistroph".
Damn !
It's all because some humourless idiot modded down some of the posts I made last night when pushing this article past the Star Fraction one. (I made more than 50 "YAASFP" posts.) Who the hell is wasting mod points moderating this thread now ? What, were they worried that readers might see too much crap in this thread when browsing at 1 ?
That's the problem with moderation -- idiots moderate.
If you thought "Kernighan and Ritchie" when you read that then you are a nerd.
Look at the Hall of Fame. The stories above this one are all about Osama bin Laden. If you are not posting to the this story, then that means you support Osama bin Laden over Kathleen Fent.
Post to this thread now, so I won't have to report your name to Dick Cheney for incarceration at Guano Bay, Cuba.
Thanks, and with your help the scorge of terrorism will be eradicated from the HOF page once and forever.
HRY FR TC ND SRCST!!
that's pretty cute, Rob .. in a kinda weird, twisted, bizarre way
just kidding. seriously, congratulations and the best of luck. i think we all (or most) wish you every happiness.
peace.
Don't ask. Go see.
This entire article is full of many Anonymous Coward posts which are utterly meaningless.
Yet the one that gets the -1 is the one that happens to be in a foreign language.
I sense some Xenophobia around here. At least this foreigner didn't want Osama bin Laden at the top the HOF. The moderator, however, should be interned in Cuba immediately.
Again, for the 2049th or so time, Congratulations, Taco!
From www.m-w.com:
/-"lA-t&r/ noun /-l&-"tOr-E, -"tor-/ adjective
congratulate
Pronunciation: k&n-'gra-ch&-"lAt, -'gra-j&-
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -lated; -lating
Etymology: Latin congratulatus, past participle of congratulari to wish joy,
from com- + gratulari to wish joy, from gratus pleasing --
Date: 1539
1 archaic: to express sympathetic pleasure at (an event)
2: to express vicarious pleasure to (a person) on the occasion of success or good fortune; also : to feel pleased with
3 obsolete: SALUTE, GREET
- congratulator
- congratulatory
There'd better be some slashback followup where we get a date ;) [when there is one]
Doesn't look like we're going to make it, but continuing to do my part... ;)
Keeping it going !
I think that it's very sweet! My very best wishes to both of you!!
For Kathleen! just more comments...get this baby up there
Get that post count up there!
Walt
May many happy years be ahead for you!
I proposed to my first wife at the premier of Star Trek: the Motion Picture. A large group of my geeky friends got together and bought tickets, and my then girl-friend flew to St. Louis from Columbus, Ohio, to see the movie with me. The lights dimmed, and I reached into my pocket and handed her a box of Cracker Jacks. She opened it, pulled out the prize, and it was a diamond ring.
In retrospect, this wasn't the best way to propose, because she spent the entire movie staring at the ring, and we had to go see the movie again. But, she still has the collage she made from the box, the prize wrapper, the TWA boarding pass, and a picture of the two of us.
Nothing for 6-digit uids?
Hey, is my computer misbehaving, or is everyone getting a blank page when they click on the hof link? This happens in both netscape and ie so it's not a browser issue.
Anyway, if memory serves correct, we're about 25 posts away from 3rd place. We've still got more than a week before this story is archived, so if we keep up our current pace we'll make it with time to spare.
Congrats, you two.
(shamelessly doing my part for the post HOF)
-- I'd say your post was about 3 monkeys, 18 minutes.
If you prick a comment modded down to -1, does it not bleed? You owe the trolls an apology. It's one thing to browse at 0 so you don't have to see their faces, but to pretend they don't exist... you make me sick. Perhaps the next U.S. census shouldn't count poor and ugly people. Then, blinders firmly affixed, you could smile and tell the world what a wealthy and beautiful countrly we are. But the world would know you were lying, just as we know you are lying when you say there are only 1917 posts. If I had modpoints I would mod you down to spend some time with the trolls you so despise. But no, the trolls don't deserve the punishment of your company. Tread carefully, TitaniumFox, we've got our eyes on you.
...congrats.
Attempts to look at the HOF page to confirm how close we are to #3 (Yeah baby ! Love and peace over Osama and terrorism !) just gave a blank page.
Comments ? Even if you have nothing to add, any comment posted here is anti-Terrorism !
Hear hear !
I could not have said it better.
In fact, I can't, so I'll just quote the previous poster (I wouldn't want that beautiful prose being lost to posterity just because Slash doesn't archive AC posts):
" It's quite shocking to me that people are still wading through a 2000+ post story and marking things 'offtopic'. If you've ever had a conversation that didn't vary in topic over the course of an entire week, then you are a depressingly boring person. But that's not surprising if you spend all of your free time on slashdot looking for comments to mod down. In case you haven't noticed, a new topic has emerged. Any comment posted to this story since 3 days ago that *isn't* blatant crapflood filler with the sole purpose of pushing the story up a notch in the Slashdot Hall of Fame is now offtopic. We are on a mission. Whether or not we 'congratulate' rob and kathleen in the course of completing our mission is incidental. Modding us down will not slow our progress, but in doing so you show yourself to be against the mission. As pointed out in an earlier post, to be against the mission is to be in favor of terror and assholes like Osama bin Laden. If you love Osama, then mod me down. Mod me down and burn in hell."
2087 is the number break, if my memory serves me.
If a "User" of slashdot is temporarily disabling HOF in an attempt to stop this, I warn you that you are working in towards the goals of Osama bin Laden regardless of your good intentions. Your time would be much better spent utilizing your User priviledges to quickly post 400 comments in this thread and send it to the top, and then we will all go home.
Thanks.
This spam intrigues me. (I am not a time traveler or universe editor, let's get out of the way right now.)
I'm interested to know if any other slashdot people have received this particular piece of spam.
I'll be popping a few key phrases from it into groups.google.com right now, to see if it has made usenet.
A search on "IneedTimeTravel@aol.com" on groups.google.com came up nil.
But on the ordinary web google search, I hit. Someone has an online personal journal in which they mention receiving this:
Roger Avry's Journal(Scroll down a bit and look at the Feb 12th entry)
Another Journal this one was received on the 10th.
I'd like to promise my constituents that this matter will be throughly investigated in between crapflood posts to this thread in the name of Love vs. Terrorism.
. . . as well as those very very few beings who can edit the universe.
Do your universe editing skillz include editting Slashdot's mySQL database ? If so, can you go back in time to Sept. 11th and delete a few hundred meaningless posts from those stories that are higher than this one in total number of posts ?
I'd also like editor priviledges and 50 karma points. Also, feel free to make a certain 21 hijackers all have massive, explosive diarhea causing them to have car wrecks on the way to airport.
Then, if you aren't TOO busy, just send an email to IneedTimeTravel@aol.com and await further instructions.
Do not send email to IneedTimeTravel@aol.com if you are an evil alien. He has specifically asked not to be spammed by evil aliens.
But someone has to do it.
I may be a Rude Dude, but when it comes to Love vs. Terrorism, I know what side I'm on.
Posts by another half million slashdot accounts seem surprisingly lacking, however.
That's right, love is now tied with Terrorism.
But that won't be the case in another two minutes !
Slow Down Cowboy!
Slashdot requires you to wait 2 minutes between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment.
It's been 56 seconds since you last successfully posted a comment
If this error seems to be incorrect, please provide the following in your report to SourceForge.net:
* Browser type
* User ID/Nickname or AC
* What steps caused this error
* Whether or not you know your ISP to be using a proxy or some sort of service that gives you an IP that others are using simultaneously.
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* Please choose 'formkeys' for the category!
Thank you.
THANK YOU, damn it.
Just in case some "User" decides to delete one or two posts here and there.
Yet Another Anti-Terrorism Pro-Love Insurance Post.
I'm a belt, suspenders, AND stable it to my soft fleshy ass cheeks type of guy.
This post has nothing to do with Congradulating Rob and Kathleen, Love vs. Terrorism, or an insane infatuation with watching numbers change on the HOF page. It doesn't even have anything to do with time traveling universe editors needed inorder to give some worthless spammer a life.
It is purely and solely dedicated to giving a big FUCK YOU to every person who moderated in this article after it left the front page.
Let me make it clear:
FUCK YOU
Best wishes to the two of you
Way back in 1995 when we got married, we put up wedding pictures online and it was so rare and unusual that People Magazine, Cosmopolitan Magazine and NetGuide Magazine all ran printed-on-paper stories about it! Now there are zillions of great wedding web pages, and no one bats an eyelash.
On the other hand, Rob's proposal is probably one of those "great Internet moments" that'll become part of the lore now.
*raises a glass* Congratulations and have a great adventure together!
-Mark
I can't wait until I get married, too
When's the wedding?
just adding to the post total so we can get this higher on the HOF than the 9/11 stories...
time to break 2100!
the twenty-one hundred mark! comeon woohoo!
Congratulations. I wish you all the best.
Furry cows moo and decompress.
All I have to say is dam
This must be a happy day time in your life, getting married, and people care about you, even news of your wedding is making hof. It's got to be a record.
so i might as well(to help the hof movement:)). congrulations cmdrtaco. may you and your lady geek have a happy life together.
I have no desire to reach nirvana.
This story sure has a lot of comments, good luck you two, and congrats. :-)
Many people have posted here in an attempt to defeat the Star Fraction story on the HOF. I would argue that posting crap to this discussion with the sole purpose of beating the SF story makes us as bad as the person who crapflooded that story in the first place. Slashdot should be a place for meaningful discussion of important technological and social issues. You disgrace this holy place, and our exalted leader Commander Taco, when you crapflood. ;-)
(Feel free to reply if you disagree
Reality has a liberal bias
I am posting many comments here because I think Kathleen and Rob's engagement is fabulous, and I would like to see it as far up the HOF as possible!
sulli
RTFJ.
my part
BTW
Lats psot!!!!
Well I know I'm very late saying it, but Congrats! /.
and you hot alot of guts propossing on
"WebTV: bringing the Internet into the shallow end of the gene pool since 1995" - Martin Bishop
Congratz, and this mean bachelor party
Bahae
muahahahaahahaahahahah cum see us
w00t w00t w00t HOF coming
crap anonymous
----
We can dance if we want to!
We can leave your friends behind!
'Cuz your friends don't dance, and if they don't
dance, well they're no friends of MINE!@
Taco> I think we should stop meeting each other.
Fent> Is it mr. frisky?
Taco> No, I love your cat, it's your webpage. I need more content
...
Fent> He says I need more content.
Neal> Yeah, yeah, that's right, yeah.
thanks
CF
April 21-27-- Slashdot Blackout: Do your duty.
cf2a
Congratulations, Rob. Peace and soul
Could it be me?
Remember, there were no nuclear weapons before women were allowed to vote.